Foundational C# with Microsoft – Free Course and Certification

By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Aug 28, 2023

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Learn how to earn a free C# certification! freeCodeCamp has teamed up with Microsoft up to bring you a new free professional certification: the Foundational C# Certification. The course is a text based course, not a video course. This professional certification includes 35 hours of text-based training and interactive coding challenges all from Microsoft, and also an online certification exam by freeCodeCamp. In this video, freeCodeCamp team member @GavinLon will preview the course, along with telling you everything you need to do to take this free course.

💻 Access the course and certification here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/foundational-c-sharp-with-microsoft/

🔗 .NET Home Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/
🔗 Community Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community
🔗 Beginner Videos: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/videos
🔗 MS Learn for .NET: https://learn.microsoft.com/training/dotnet/
🔗 Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:05:09) Overview of how to acquire the Foundational C# with Microsoft Developer Certificate
⌨️ (0:09:34) In depth guide through Part1, Module1 (Write your first C# code)
⌨️ (0:48:42) Configure and Install Visual Studio Code and Install .NET 7 SDK
⌨️ (1:04:08) Code Example – if, else, else if statements in C#
⌨️ (1:10:43) Code Example -switch-case construct in C#
⌨️ (1:17:52) Code Example – write your first C# method
⌨️ (1:25:40) Gavin Lon takes the Foundational C# with Microsoft Developer Certification exam
⌨️ (1:27:46) Recommended content to continue your C# and .NET education upon finishing the certification
⌨️ (1:29:29) Conclusion

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How to Create a Light Bloom Effect in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2023)

By AdobeMasters
Published: Aug 28, 2023

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Create a Large Language Model from Scratch with Python – Tutorial

By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Aug 25, 2023

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Learn how to build your own large language model, from scratch. This course goes into the data handling, math, and transformers behind large language models. You will use Python.

✏️ Course developed by @elliotarledge

💻 Code and course resources: https://github.com/Infatoshi/fcc-intro-to-llms

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
(0:00:00) Intro
(0:03:25) Install Libraries
(0:06:24) Pylzma build tools
(0:08:58) Jupyter Notebook
(0:12:11) Download wizard of oz
(0:14:51) Experimenting with text file
(0:17:58) Character-level tokenizer
(0:19:44) Types of tokenizers
(0:20:58) Tensors instead of Arrays
(0:22:37) Linear Algebra heads up
(0:23:29) Train and validation splits
(0:25:30) Premise of Bigram Model
(0:26:41) Inputs and Targets
(0:29:29) Inputs and Targets Implementation
(0:30:10) Batch size hyperparameter
(0:32:13) Switching from CPU to CUDA
(0:33:28) PyTorch Overview
(0:42:49) CPU vs GPU performance in PyTorch
(0:47:49) More PyTorch Functions
(1:06:03) Embedding Vectors
(1:11:33) Embedding Implementation
(1:13:06) Dot Product and Matrix Multiplication
(1:25:42) Matmul Implementation
(1:26:56) Int vs Float
(1:29:52) Recap and get_batch
(1:35:07) nnModule subclass
(1:37:05) Gradient Descent
(1:50:53) Logits and Reshaping
(1:59:28) Generate function and giving the model some context
(2:03:58) Logits Dimensionality
(2:05:17) Training loop + Optimizer + Zerograd explanation
(2:13:56) Optimizers Overview
(2:17:04) Applications of Optimizers
(2:18:11) Loss reporting + Train VS Eval mode
(2:32:54) Normalization Overview
(2:35:45) ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh Activations
(2:45:15) Transformer and Self-Attention
(2:46:55) Transformer Architecture
(3:17:54) Building a GPT, not Transformer model
(3:19:46) Self-Attention Deep Dive
(3:25:05) GPT architecture
(3:27:07) Switching to Macbook
(3:31:42) Implementing Positional Encoding
(3:36:57) GPTLanguageModel initalization
(3:40:52) GPTLanguageModel forward pass
(3:46:56) Standard Deviation for model parameters
(4:00:50) Transformer Blocks
(4:04:54) FeedForward network
(4:07:53) Multi-head Attention
(4:12:49) Dot product attention
(4:19:43) Why we scale by 1/sqrt(dk)
(4:26:45) Sequential VS ModuleList Processing
(4:30:47) Overview Hyperparameters
(4:32:14) Fixing errors, refining
(4:34:01) Begin training
(4:35:46) OpenWebText download and Survey of LLMs paper
(4:37:56) How the dataloader/batch getter will have to change
(4:41:20) Extract corpus with winrar
(4:43:44) Python data extractor
(4:49:23) Adjusting for train and val splits
(4:57:55) Adding dataloader
(4:59:04) Training on OpenWebText
(5:02:22) Training works well, model loading/saving
(5:04:18) Pickling
(5:05:32) Fixing errors + GPU Memory in task manager
(5:14:05) Command line argument parsing
(5:18:11) Porting code to script
(5:22:04) Prompt: Completion feature + more errors
(5:24:23) nnModule inheritance + generation cropping
(5:27:54) Pretraining vs Finetuning
(5:33:07) R&D pointers
(5:44:38) Outro

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This EASY VFX Shot Will BLOW Your Mind!

By Cinecom.net
Published: Aug 25, 2023

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Code a Google Drive Clone using Laravel and Vue.js – Complete Course

By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Aug 21, 2023

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Build and deploy a fully functional file manager application with Laravel, PHP, Inertial, and Vue.js. The application is similar to Google Drive.

Learn to implement functionalities such as:
– Creating folders at unlimited depth,
– Uploading files and folders,
– Deleting and Downloading files,
– Searching for files,
– Sharing files,
– Uploading files to AWS S3,
– Deploying the project on a custom domain.

✏️ Course developed by @TheCodeholic

💻 Code: https://github.com/thecodeholic/laravel-file-manager

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro
⌨️ (0:00:29) Demo
⌨️ (0:08:13) Project Setup
⌨️ (0:14:21) Install Laravel Breeze
⌨️ (0:17:49) Email Verification
⌨️ (0:22:15) DB Overview, Models & Migrations
⌨️ (0:35:56) Explore Intertia Folder Structure
⌨️ (0:37:49) Authentication Layout
⌨️ (1:18:08) Define Main Routes
⌨️ (1:24:16) Create Root Folder On User Registration
⌨️ (1:30:34) Creating Folder
⌨️ (2:06:53) Save Folder Path
⌨️ (2:11:46) Show Files into table
⌨️ (2:26:07) Navigate into Second Level of Folders
⌨️ (2:34:18) Create Folders Inside Subfolder
⌨️ (2:37:01) Implement Breadcrumbs
⌨️ (2:46:44) Uploading Files
⌨️ (4:08:30) Show Human Readable File size
⌨️ (4:16:00) Show File Icons
⌨️ (4:27:56) Show File Progress
⌨️ (4:34:54) Display Error When File Already Exists
⌨️ (4:47:49) Implement Load More
⌨️ (5:11:42) Increase max_file_uploads
⌨️ (5:21:20) Deleting Files
⌨️ (6:23:48) Implement Downloading Files
⌨️ (7:04:32) Show Success Notifications
⌨️ (7:15:36) Implement Trash
⌨️ (8:00:03) Implement Favorites
⌨️ (9:18:23) Sharing Files to Others
⌨️ (10:05:16) Implement Shared With Me Page
⌨️ (10:26:49) Implement Shared By Me Page
⌨️ (10:50:23) Searching for Files
⌨️ (11:15:42) Connect to AWS S3
⌨️ (12:15:42) Download Files from S3
⌨️ (12:45:19) Project Deployment & Bug Fixing
⌨️ (13:40:18) Outro

🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters:
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👾 Justin Hual
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