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Certifications are an important investment that can help you succeed in your career. They show your expertise, give you credibility, and open up new opportunities.

Be sure to check out 12 free Google online courses with certifications, covering topics such as Data Science with Python, Machine Learning, Digital Marketing, IT Support, and AI. Each course has different modules, hours, and levels of difficulty. No payment or prior experience is required.
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Here are 12 FREE Google courses to become skilled in 2023

1. Data Science with Python.

Getting Started with Data Science with Python

Course Detail:

→ Modules: 13
→ Hours: 8
→ Advanced
→ Free

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2. Basics of Machine Learning.

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Course Detail:

→ Modules: 1
→ Hours: 1
→Beginner

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3. Machine Learning Crash Course.

Google's fast-paced, practical introduction to machine learning.

Course Detail:

→ Modules: 3
→ Hours: 15
→ Intermediate
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4. Data Science foundations.

The faculty from institutions like IIT Roorkee, Guwahati, and Ropar and experts from the data science industry will lead the programme.

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5. Learn Python Basics for Data Analysis.

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Course Detail:

→ Modules: 4
→ Hours: 12
→ Beginner
→ Free

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6. Google Cloud Computing Foundations.

The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing.

They provide a detailed overview of concepts covering cloud basics and big data

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7. Fundamentals of digital marketing.

Learn the fundamentals of digital marketing to help your business or career.

Course Detail:

→ Modules: 26
→ Hours: 40
→ Beginner
→ Free

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8. Google Workspace Administration.

You will learn how to provision and manage your users, and will create groups and calendar resources for your organization

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9. Google UX Design Professional Certificate.

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This is your path to a career in IT. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills that will have you job-ready in less than 6 months.

No degree or experience is required.

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11. Google AI

Google AI is an educational site that provides all the courses learning about AI and how it can efficiently help us.

With this, it also has many insights into how AI works in different platforms and services.

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12. Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce.

This is your path to a career in digital marketing. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills that can have you job-ready in less than 6 months.

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Did you know?

First Computer Device was built by ladies

If you have seen lines drawn on a pitch analyzing plays or checking for offsides during football match games, you are at the right place. The technology behind it is called Augmented Reality. A football match analysis using Augmented Reality function is just a drop of water in the ocean of the uses of AR technology.

This is the same technology that companies like furniture giants IKEA uses to let their customers see how their preferable furniture would look like in their house by integrating a virtual bed, table or whatever it is into their real house space.

What is Augmented Reality?
AR is a technology that lets people place digital objects over the real-world objects. Unlike Virtual Reality, in AR you do not get lost entirely on the digital world but rather the virtual world is integrated on the physical world. With the right devices like AR contacts, AR powered smart glasses, AR headsets or a smartphone with AR applications, you can just point to the garden and start seeing virtual puppies running around, birds on your trees and kids playing around.

The technology found its popularity after the introduction of Pokeman AR game in 2016, players could search for pokeman characters in their rooms. It has since extended to many fields like:

Education
The technology is well exploited in the education sector, the medicine schools have found a way of integrating AR into their practical where virtual human models can be integrated into their physical world and be studied. The experience is mesmerizing!

Gaming
Like it is stated before, AR was popularized by Pokeman game, it has since then been incorporated into hundreds if not dozens of games.

Marketing and Sales
Companies have created applications that supports AR technology and have really helped their business. With IKEA application, you can put a bed virtual bed in your house before actually buying it, to check if it suits your space. Companies that sell paints would let you virtually apply those paints on your wall.

City Touring
AR applications meant for city touring can help tourists to get to know places by just pointing their smartphone camera and it would label or virtually label texts that describes them.

There are significant uses of AR across loads of fields like military, medicine, tourism, agriculture and so on. Not only that, but the future of AR is also quite promising and would without doubt be of great help.

Have you ever interacted with Virtual Reality Technology? How do you think it can be of help in your field?



Photo (IMM-Cologne) shows a virtual sofa being integrated into an apartment's living space.

Computer Generation With Examples

Firth Generation- The first example is the device you're using to view this post now. This generation is based on Artificial Intelligence and the main aim is to make a device which could respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and self organization.

Computer Generation With Examples

The Forth Generation- The CDC STAR-100 is a vector supercomputer that was designed, manufactured, and marketed by Control Data Corporation (CDC). It was one of the first machines to use a vector processor to improve performance on appropriate scientific applications. It was also the first supercomputer to use integrated circuits and the first to be equipped with one million words of computer memory.

Computer Generation With Examples
Third Generation- PDP-8, the first affordable computer, was among the first ever minicomputers and this one was small enough to fit in the back seat.

Computer Generation With Examples
Second Generation- Among others was the Honeywell 400 which was constructed in 1960. Software's included; EASY Assembler, COBOL compiler, AUTOMATH scientific language compiler, Run Monitor.

Computer Generation with Examples
First Generation- The first programable , electronic and general purpose digital computer (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) ENIAC was completed in 1945 , primarily to help with war effort against German forces.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Over the years we have seen escalation of novel innovative and development of computerized and digitized systems and services. Today, it is far more impossible to keep track of the new discoveries anymore. Digital products and systems are released almost every day. Like any other revolution, digitalization has its humble beginnings. Let us take a brief history lane to the earlier innovations that inspired today’s widespread of computerization.

Computer history is often classified into generations, distinguished by the prospects and traits of that generation computers.

First Generation (1946-1959) Vacuum based
Second Generation (1959-1965) transistor based
Third Generation (1965-1971) integrated circuit based
Fourth Generation (1971-1980) VLSI microprocessor based
Fifth Generation(1980-present) ULSI microprocessor based

Remarkable years in computing history

1890: Hollerith machine was created by Herman Hollerith. It was a punch card system used to calculate the 1880 US Census.

1936: Allan Turing introduced the idea of a universal machine which serves as the inspiration behind the modern-day computers.

1939: Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded by Bill Hewlett and Packard, they designed HP 200A Audio Oscillator.

1943: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC) was built by Professor John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. It was large and made up of 18, 000 vacuum tubes.

1944: The Colossus, a machine created to break the complex code used by the N***s in World War II was designed by Tommy Flowers.

1953: Grace Hopper, a computer scientist, develops COBOL, the first computer language which helped developers to use English like words rather than numbers as it was known.

1954: A team of programmers at IBM led John Backus developed the FORTRAN programming language.

1958: Jack Kirby and Robert Royce designed the integrated circuit, a computer chip.

1962: IBM releases 1311 Disk Storage Drive, a disk drive made with a removable disk pack.

1964: This is the year in which a graphical user interface (GUI) prototype was introduced by Douglas Engelbart.

1973: Ethernet was developed to connect computers and hardware. This was by Robert Metcalfe, a researcher at Xerox.

1977: Jobs and Wozniak releases the Apple II

1981: IBM releases Acorn, their first personal
computer, with an Intel chip, two floppy disks, and an available color monitor

1983: Microsoft launches Word

1984: Apple introduces Macintosh

1985: C++ programming language is introduced

1990: Tim Berners Lee builds Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) and worldwide web prototype.

1996: Larry Page and Sergey Brin develop Google
2000: SoftBank introduced the first camera phone of 0.11 megapixels, a 256-color display

2001: Apple releases Mac OS and Microsoft releases Windows XP.

2007: Apple released their first iPhone

2009: Microsoft launched Windows 7

2016: Quantum computer that is reprogrammable is created

2019: Apple introduces iPad's own operating system, iPadOS