New STEM Skills to Learn on Hyperskill in April
Introduction
Welcome to Hyperskill’s monthly content updates!
This article will share new educational topics, projects, and tracks from JetBrains Academy and Edvancium. April has arrived, and with it comes a unique opportunity to embark on a learning journey. If you’ve been considering exploring new tracks and projects in programming, math, or bioinformatics, then you’re in luck!
Who We are
Hyperskill is a project-based learning platform that offers a personalized curriculum and a variety of tracks to help people from different backgrounds gain market-relevant skills through online education.
JetBrains Academy on Hyperskill
With JetBrains serving as the content provider for JetBrains Academy on Hyperskill, you can have peace of mind knowing that you’re in the hands of experienced professionals. JetBrains Academy has received a significant update this month, featuring 36 new topics, 10 new projects, and one new track for learners. Start learning with JetBrains Academy to develop your first indie game with Unity, make your traffic light, and even create a page to shorten website URLs.
Let’s jump right into the updates!
Java:
Projects
- Traffic Light (Java, Medium, Beta)
- Hospital Appointment Booking System (Java, Hard, Beta)
- Password Hacker (Java, Challenging, Beta)
Data Science
- Instruments: K-Means in sklearn
- Machine learning: Basics of neural network architecture, MAE, Introduction to Question Answering
- NLP: Knowledge-based QA, Machine Reading Comprehension & Logical Reasoning QA, Open-domain and close-domain QA
Projects
- Naive Bayes Classifier with Pen and Paper (ML, Easy, Beta)
Android
Frontend
- CSS: Grid gaps, Introduction to Grid
- JavaScript: Local Storage
Projects
- URL Shortener (HTML, CSS, JS, Medium, Beta)
- Dog Glossary (HTML, CSS, JS, Hard, Beta)
Backend
- Ktor: WebSockets
- Node.js: Working with filesystem, Creation of HTTP server, Querystring module, What is module?
- Spring Boot: Custom queries with @Query, Testing repositories
- Kotlin: Inline functions and reified types in Kotlin, Infix functions, Operator overloading, CharSequence, Type cast and smart cast
- System administration and DevOps: Best practices for writing Dockerfiles
Fundamentals
- Algorithms and structures: Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, DFS-based topological sort, Coding: overview
- Dev tools: Introduction to Kubernetes
- JVM: Parallel GC
- SQL and Databases: Sequences, The WITH statement, Aggregate operations, Explain, Import and export CSV files, Date and Time data types in SQLite
Python
- Jeopardy! Question Answering Bot (Python, NLP, Challenging, Beta)
- Marathon Runners (Python, NLP, Hard, Beta)
- Learning Progress Tracker (Python, Hard, Beta)
- Movie Database API (Flask, Challenging, Beta)
The Introduction to Natural Language Processing track also received a major update in March. The new and improved track will equip you with the right tools to process, filter, and analyze text data, extract key terms, generate texts yourself, and use the data to build a simple question-answering system.
If you’re eager to bring your dream game to life, we are excited to announce the new JetBrains Academy track on Hyperskill — Game Development with Unity. The track contains four real-world projects that will provide you with the necessary knowledge to create simple indie games. They may eventually develop into larger, more exciting projects. If you continue your education along this path, you can become a game developer, game designer, or game producer.
Edvancium on Hyperskill
As one of the content providers for Hyperskill’s math and bioinformatics tracks, Edvancium offers comprehensive and engaging learning materials designed to help you acquire new skills and improve your thinking and creative skills. This month, we’ve added 6 new topics and a new track to Edvancium.
Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics algorithms: Genome assembly, Scaffolding
- DNA sequencing: Microarrays
- Molecular biology: Replication
- Omics: Omics
Math
А new Hyperskill track Introduction to Math will help you gain basic mathematical knowledge. This track suits any mathematical background, whether you didn’t have a chance to study the fundamentals or your school days are long gone. After completing this track, you will be ready to dive deeper into the world of applied math.
Please note that projects marked as Beta are still in the early stages of testing. If you want to check out the Beta projects on Hyperskill, ensure the Beta-tester feature is on in your profile settings.
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Keep learning,
Your Hyperskill team
