Harvard University offers free online courses for "programmers"

Harvard University offers free online courses for programmers basically for computer science students or job seekers.

Harvard University, one of the premium educational institutions in the US, has announced many online short-term courses for programmers and computer science scholars to keep learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the details of 8 online courses specially crafted by Harvard University that are free and programmers from all around the world can join. These courses are FREE

yes you read it right these courses are 100% free of cost online courses from a esteemed Harvard University

Here is free courses list

1. CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

Duration - 11 weeks
Time Commitment - 10-20 hours per week

An entry-level course, Introduction to Computer Science teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development. Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and HTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming.

2. CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

Duration - 7 weeks
Time Commitment - 10-30 hours per week

This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. By course’s end, students emerge with experience in libraries for machine learning as well as knowledge of artificial intelligence principles that enable them to design intelligent systems of their own.

3. CS50's Introduction to Game Development

Duration - 12 weeks
Time Commitment - 6-9 hours per week

Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using frameworks like Unity and LÖVE 2D, as well as languages like Lua and C#. By class’s end, you'll have programmed several of your own games and gained a thorough understanding of the basics of game design and development.

4. CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

Duration - 12 weeks
Time Commitment - 6-9 hours per week

The course includes topics like database design, scalability, security, and user experience. Through hands-on projects, you'll learn to write and use APIs, create interactive UIs, and leverage cloud services like GitHub and Heroku. By course's end, you'll emerge with knowledge and experience in principles, languages, and tools that empower you to design and deploy applications on the Internet.

5. CS50's Mobile App Development with React Native

Duration - 13 weeks
Time Commitment - 6-9 hours per week

This course enables your transitioning from web development to mobile app development with React Native. The course introduces you to modern JavaScript (including ES6 and ES7) as well as to JSX, a JavaScript extension. Through hands-on projects, you'll gain experience with React and its paradigms, app architecture, and user interfaces. The course culminates in a final project for which you'll implement an app entirely of your own design.

6. Using Python for Research

Duration - 5 weeks
Time Commitment - 4-8 hours per week

This course bridges the gap between introductory and advanced courses in Python. While there are many excellent introductory Python courses available, most typically do not go deep enough for you to apply your Python skills to research projects. In this course, after first reviewing the basics of Python 3, we learn about tools commonly used in research settings. Using a combination of a guided introduction and more independent in-depth exploration, you will get to practice your new Python skills with various case studies chosen for their scientific breadth and their coverage of different Python features.

7. Data Science: Machine Learning

Duration - 8 weeks
Time Commitment - 2-4 hours per week

In this course, you will learn popular machine learning algorithms, principal component analysis, and regularization by building a movie recommendation system. You will learn about training data, and how to use a set of data to discover potentially predictive relationships. As you build the movie recommendation system, you will learn how to train algorithms using training data so you can predict the outcome for future datasets. You will also learn about overtraining and techniques to avoid it such as cross-validation. All of these skills are fundamental to machine learning.

8. Data Science: Productivity Tools

Duration - 8 weeks
Time Commitment - 1-2 hours per week

This course explains how to use Unix/Linux as a tool for managing files and directories on your computer and how to keep the file system organized. You will be introduced to the version control systems git, a powerful tool for keeping track of changes in your scripts and reports. The course also introduces you to GitHub and demonstrate how you can use this service to keep your work in a repository that facilitates collaborations.

You can register for these courses from the University website.

Windows 20 is HERE!! Really??

Microsoft has already ended support for windows XP and 7 that are really good of their time. So leaving only Windows10 as a single operating system from Microsoft. 

Despite a major push by the company, Windows 10 hasn’t been one of the company’s most popular OSes and it has been riddled with bugs. Perhaps it’s time that the company focuses on its next generation desktop operating system -- Windows 20.

Now, concept creator Kamer Kaan Avdan, who in the past has released videos demonstrating the likes of Windows XP and Windows 7 among others, has shared a new video, which demonstrates how the Windows 10 successor would look like.
According to his video, the Windows 20 would come with a design that is both simple and flexible to use. The new desktop OS is likely to come with several upgraded features such as multiple taskbars, customizable taskbar, a redesigned file explorer tab and a redesigned tablet mode.

What Microsoft Says on Windows 20!!

“Microsoft confirms there will be no Windows 20. The name for this concept has been chosen as Windows 20 to emphasize the idea of ‘’The Future of Windows 10’’. For those who are curious ‘’20’’ stands for the year 2020,” Avdan wrote on YouTube.

Facebook dark mode is HERE!! How to TURN ON check all details here

Facebook long waited dark mode for desktop is finally 

HERE

Facebook is finally enabling dark mode for desktop users to set the Facebook into dark mode to use it easily at night without harming the eyes. and also give battery life of laptop a good power boost to let using the Facebook website longer.

FACEBOOK DARK MODE - HOW TO SET UP ON 

DESKTOPS

1. Depending on when you last used Facebook on desktop you might see a banner at the top of the page asking if you want to try out the 'New Facebook'.

2. If not you can access this option by selecting the downward arrow in the top right hand corner of your screen.

3. From there on out select 'Switch to New Facebook'. When you do this for the first time you will be given a number of different viewing options.

4. You can choose a standard or compact screen layout and you will also be asked whether you want to switch to Dark Mode or not.

5. Once you have chosen your ideal preference you can tinker with your display options at any time.

6. When in the new Facebook simply click the downward facing arrow button in the top right hand corner and then choose Display Preferences.

7. From there you can toggle Dark Mode on and offer and also shift between the compact and standard display layout.

You can also go back to 'Classic Facebook' if you wish to do so.

How to BOOST Performance for PC/ Laptop FREE

How to speed up your laptop/PC for free

Welcome on my another blog for how to speed up your PC/laptop for free. Its not always an intelligent move to just upgrade some hardware in your system and called it boost up for PC.

You can actually save a huge amount of money and your efforts but simply following these steps to boost your system performance and get it running like a beast and good thing here is its absolutely for FREE.

For most people your laptop is running a Windows 10. So I will cover all tips and tricks for boosting up windows 10 laptops.

1. Just update Windows 10 

Yes you read it right just update windows 10 till latest update. You can turn ON AUTO update. Yes its just as simple as it sounds. Many updates have more bugs then solutions of previous bugs but its the ultimate thing that boost performance of your laptop. There are many rumour for Windows 20. But nothing is confirmed by Microsoft

 

2. Shut Cortana up for good

For majority of users (including me), Cortana is little more than a frustration baked into the core of Windows 10. Annoying pop-ups, constant data-gathering, and forced Bing search make Cortana the least helpful voice assistant, but fortunately, shutting her down is reasonably straightforward. 
 Under settings page find Cortana and then toggle all its sliders to off. To complete the process, head back out to the main “Settings” menu. Under “Privacy Settings,” you’ll find “Speech” and “Iinking and typing personalization.” and thats it, you just get rid of Cortana that not constantly uses data in background but also affect your laptop overall performance.

3. Turn off startup apps

open task manager click on "more details", then Last fourth tab is "Startup". Here are all apps that start running when your PC just start start up process (like OneDrive, Spotify etc) which results in hanging of system or lacking performance.

4. Uninstall unwanted applications

To identify which application/ software is unwanted just see when you last used it if its over 6 months then you definitely don't need it and just uninstall it. Make sure you clean leftovers of uninstall software Just use the software's like revo uninstaller. It will help to clean leftovers of uninstalled applications.

5. Check for Malwares

Well its most common reason for the low performance of laptop. Afcose you won't feel any difference but if you suspect something or anything just scan your laptop for possible malware. You can use windows 10 in-built antivirus that scans for viruses just check for latest update before scanning.

And that's it guys there also many other ways too I will write them in my another blog but these are most common tricks that will make your PC or Laptop as NEW for FREE!!

Do check my other blogs too here and here

iPhone 9 is coming!! check all details here

iPhone 9 is set for release for mid of April 2020 but it got delayed for October claims analyst

iPhone 9 is said to feature A13 bionic chip SoC which is first seen in iPhones launched last year

The phones main highlights includes:

• iPhone 9 is expected to be cheaper than its predecessor.
• It expected in mid of April 2020.
• Have a processor that are available only in top model of iPhone series that is A13 bionic chip.
• iPhone 9 is also be known as iPhone SE 2.

There are many reports claiming that apple secretly working on budget model of iPhone but no one had proved it yet. The device is successor of iPhone 8 and is also the reason called iPhone 9. But there are conflicting reports that this device is called  iPhone SE 2.

But whatever its name may be, what is becoming clear is that the phone's release around April 15 being the likely date of launch. Rumored to sport a price tag of US $349 in US, the smartphone is tipped to bring design similar to the iPhone 8, but pack within its frame some internals from newer iPhones.

As per a report published in MacRumors the device could arrive as early as this week. This claim is based on the revelations by noted Apple analyst, Jeff Pu, who is an executive director at GF Securities. 

The reports also claims that the iPhone 12 is well on track for release and that the 5.4-inch and two 6.1-inch iPhone 12 models should be available to purchase in September. The report further goes on to add that there would also be a larger 6.7-inch model which will be available starting October.

The iPhone SE 2 is said to feature an A13 Bionic SoC, 3 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of storage. Apple's new iPhone could also feature Touch ID, and skip on more expensive technologies to keep the price in check.

The above information is just the summary of full report available on India today's website check the down below for more information

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/iphone-9-iphone-se-2-set-for-mid-april-release-iphone-12-launch-in-october-1666379-2020-04-13