Big Data & Front End Development track in the Microsoft Professional Program

Earlier I introduced you the Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science. Right after few days Microsoft announced the BETA availability of two more tracks Big Data and Front End Development.

Big Data Track:

This Microsoft program will help you to learn necessary skills from cloud storage and databases to Hadoop, Spark, and managed data services in Azure. Curriculum of this program involves learning how to build big data solutions for batch and real-time stream processing using Azure managed services and open source systems like Hadoop and Spark.

Are you intend to pursue a Data Analytics career, this is the right program for you to gain necessary insights.

Technology you will apply to gain these skills are: Azure Data Lake, Hadoop, HDInsight, Spark, Azure data factory, Azure Stream Analytics

Below is the course outline :

• 10 COURSES  |  12-30  HOURS PER COURSE  |  8  SKILLS
• ENROLL NOW here
• More details here

Front End Development Track:

This track provides you necessary skills to get started with Advanced Front End development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS and Bootstrap.  At the end of the curriculum you will become master in Front End Development with all predominant modern web technologies.

So if you are a front end UI developer, this is something you can try out to enhance your skills.

Below is the course outline :

• 13 COURSES  |  15-30 HOURS PER COURSE  |  11 SKILLS
• ENROLL NOW here
• More details  here

Track detail

Each course runs for three months and starts at the beginning of a quarter. January—March, April—June, July—September, and October —December. The capstone runs for four weeks at the beginning of each quarter: January, April, July, October. For exact dates for the current course run, please refer to the course detail page on edX.org. 

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