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    Study game programming techniques for developing video games. Learn about game physics, graphics, and AI for creating dynamic gameplay.

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      Johns Hopkins University

      R Programming

      Skills you'll gain: R Programming, Software Installation, Statistical Programming, Programming Principles, Performance Tuning, Simulations, Debugging, Scripting, Data Manipulation, Statistical Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Structures

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      IBM

      IBM AI Developer

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, ChatGPT, Web Development Tools, Responsive Web Design, Development Environment, Generative AI Agents, Software Design, Large Language Modeling, Software Engineering, Flask (Web Framework), Software Development Methodologies, Software Design Patterns, Jupyter, Professional Networking, Python Programming, Machine Learning, Data Science

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      4.6
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      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      Johns Hopkins University

      Data Science: Foundations using R

      Skills you'll gain: Rmarkdown, Exploratory Data Analysis, Plot (Graphics), Knitr, R Programming, Data Manipulation, Statistical Visualization, Data Science, Data Visualization Software, Data Cleansing, Ggplot2, MySQL, Dimensionality Reduction, Software Installation, Version Control, Data Analysis, Data Sharing, Statistical Programming, GitHub, Machine Learning

      4.6
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      48K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Codio

      Programming in C++: A Hands-on Introduction

      Skills you'll gain: Data Validation, Data Structures, C++ (Programming Language), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Data Import/Export, Object Oriented Design, Computer Programming, Programming Principles, Data Integrity, Data Store, Computer Science, Software Documentation, File Management, C and C++, Computational Logic, Maintainability, Debugging

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      IBM

      IBM Data Science

      Skills you'll gain: Data Wrangling, SQL, Unsupervised Learning, Matplotlib, Data Literacy, Feature Engineering, Relational Databases, Data Visualization Software, Professional Networking, Predictive Modeling, Plotly, Supervised Learning, Dashboard, Exploratory Data Analysis, Generative AI, Seaborn, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Jupyter, Data Science

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      145K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      EDUCBA

      PyCharm Project - Tic-Tac-Toe Game Development

      Skills you'll gain: Event-Driven Programming, Integrated Development Environments, Game Design, User Interface (UI), Application Development, Maintainability, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Python Programming

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      California Institute of the Arts

      Introduction to Game Design

      Skills you'll gain: Game Design, Video Game Development, Storytelling, Interactive Design, Design Elements And Principles, Systems Design, Usability, Creativity

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      2.9K reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      SAS

      SAS Programmer

      Skills you'll gain: SAS (Software), Data Validation, Data Manipulation, Data Import/Export, Data Access, Exploratory Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Transformation, Statistical Programming, Data Integration, SQL, Data Cleansing, Data Presentation, Descriptive Statistics, Debugging

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      4.8
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      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      Vanderbilt University

      MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists

      Skills you'll gain: Machine Learning Methods, Image Analysis, Applied Machine Learning, Matlab, Algorithms, Data Analysis, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Data Processing, Computer Vision, User Interface (UI), Regression Analysis, Digital Communications, Numerical Analysis, Performance Tuning, Computer Programming, Mathematical Software, Programming Principles, Debugging, Data Structures

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      18K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Google

      Crash Course on Python

      Skills you'll gain: Python Programming, Programming Principles, Scripting, Computer Programming, Algorithms, Scripting Languages, Data Structures, Debugging, Automation

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      40K reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      IBM

      IBM DevOps and Software Engineering

      Skills you'll gain: CI/CD, Serverless Computing, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Agile Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle, Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile Methodology, OpenShift, Linux Commands, GitHub, Software Architecture, DevOps, Microservices, Containerization, Cloud Computing Architecture, Software Engineering, Flask (Web Framework), System Monitoring, Jupyter, Application Development

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      61K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      Meta

      Meta Full-Stack Developer

      Skills you'll gain: Database Design, Version Control, Unix Commands, Restful API, HTML and CSS, Jest (JavaScript Testing Framework), Django (Web Framework), Relational Databases, Git (Version Control System), React.js, SQL, API Design, GitHub, Responsive Web Design, Database Management, Application Programming Interface (API), MySQL, Data Integrity, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Python Programming

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      24K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular game programming courses

    • R Programming: Johns Hopkins University
    • IBM AI Developer: IBM
    • Data Science: Foundations using R: Johns Hopkins University
    • Programming in C++: A Hands-on Introduction: Codio
    • IBM Data Science: IBM
    • PyCharm Project - Tic-Tac-Toe Game Development: EDUCBA
    • Introduction to Game Design: California Institute of the Arts
    • SAS Programmer: SAS
    • MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists: Vanderbilt University
    • Crash Course on Python: Google

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