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The best way to inspire a love of learning? Through play, of course! Cubelets Robot Blocks are so easy to use, there’s no wrong way to build with them, making learning robotics fun and exciting for the whole family. You don’t need to code or wire anything to build Cubelets robots – it’s as simple as snapping blocks together.

Parents’ Choice Silver Honor award winner

Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation

• Build & play w/ over 500 robots
• Cubelets® robot blocks are designed for inquisitive minds ages 4 to 40+
• Named a Top 10 Tech Toy from Toy Fair 2014 by USA Today
• Pair w/ Lego & other brick-based construction sets to add new levels of detail & artistry to your robots
• Connect a Bluetooth Cubelet (not included) to create app-controlled robots and learn to code

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Expandable with additional blocks sold separately

Compatibility

• Free app compatible with iOS and Android

  Includes

  • 2 drive Cubelets
  • 2 distance Cubelets
  • Flashlight Cubelet
  • Brightness Cubelet
  • Passive Cubelet
  • Blocker Cubelet
  • Battery Cubelet
  • 2 Brick Adapters
  • USB charging cable

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This bundle boasts all the tools you need to gain and keep a competitive advantage in your PC and Mac gaming. You’ll get the Siberia 150 USB headset, the Rival 100 laser mouse, and the Apex 300 keyboard, providing a slew of features to push you past the competition.

“SteelSeries have provided a wonderful yet affordable alternative to many of the more expensive gaming-focused mice on the market, with the Rival 100 Optical Gaming Mouse,” Crave Online

“Though it may be aimed at gamers, the Apex is great for anyone who wants a classy keyboard with excellent capabilities,” Fragged Nation

• Enjoy customizable audio & an active soundscape w/ the Siberia 150 USB headset
• Communicate w/ other players w/ the Siberia’s built-in microphone
• Customize your Rival 100 w/ six programmable buttons
• Get an advantage w/ the tournament-ready, pro-approved Rival 100
• Fly to victory w/ fast action keys on the Apex 300
• Take total control of your keyboard w/ macros, custom profiles, & lighting options
• Use advanced anti-ghosting to press up to 6 keys simultaneously w/o locking the keyboard

Available to US customers only.

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Siberia 150 USB Headset:
  • Speaker drivers: 40mm Neodymium drivers
  • Headphone frequency response: 20-20000 Hz
  • Headphone sensitivity: 94 dB
  • Microphone frequency response: 50-16000 Hz
  • Microphone pickup pattern: Omnidirectional
  • Microphone sensitivity: -38 dB
  • Microphone impedance: 2200 Ohm

• Rival 100 Laser Mouse
  • Material: Soft touch black, glossy colors
  • Ergonomic, right-handed
  • Grip style: Claw or finger-tip
  • Number of buttons: 6
  • SteelSeries switches: Rated for 30 million clicks
  • Weight: 120 g
  • Height: 120.6 mm
  • Width: 67.13 mm
  • Cable Length: 1.8 m

• Apex 300 Gaming Keyboard
  • Layout: Low-profile
  • Ergonomically raised macro keys: 17
  • Dedicated media keys
  • Anti-Ghosting: 20 key
  • Illumination: Single color white backlit
  • Weight: 1230 g
  • Height: 52 mm
  • Width: 520 mm
  • Swappable rubber feet
  • Cable length: 1.8 m

Compatibility

• PC
• Mac

Includes

• Siberia 150 USB Headset
• Rival 100 Laser Mouse
• Apex 300 Keyboard

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The new MacBooks are here, and you may notice – as usual – Apple has decided to jump well ahead of the curve on its ports while slimming down the design. Thankfully, however, there’s the HyperDrive USB Type-C 5-in-1 Hub to plug into that unusual looking USB Type-C port and expand your MacBook’s ports with an SDXC, a microSDXC, 2 USB 3.0, and an extra USB Type-C port, all on a single, simple bar. You can even charge your MacBook right through the hub, so you can multitask like a pro.

• Expand your new MacBook’s ports to accommodate syncing cables, camera cords, flash drives, microSD cards & much more
• Charge your laptop w/ pass-through charging, without having to remove the hub
• Carry anywhere easily thanks to a portable, sturdy design

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• USB Type-C
• SDXC
• micro SDXC
• 2 USB 3.0
• Material: aluminum
• Does not support Apple SuperDrive

Compatibility

• 2016 12″ MacBook
• 2016 MacBook Pro
• Chromebook Pixel

Includes

• HyperDrive USB Type-C 5-in-1 Hub (silver)

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Wish your smartphone had the functionality of your DSLR? Well, our friends at Acesori want to help with this 3-in-1 LensKit designed to greatly increase your camera’s range. Easily connected to the magnetic ring around your phone’s camera, this kit allows you to take incredible photos and video through fish eye, wide angle, and macro lenses.

• Easily detachable & interchangeable design includes magnetic rings
• High-quality, anti-scratch glass w/ reduced glare & reflection will greatly enhance your photos
• Metal lanyards & lens covers keep the lenses protected and portable
• Durable aluminum construction makes the lenses more durable
• Fish Eye views complete a 180 degree picture
• Wide Angle shots will let you capture an entire landscape
• Macro pictures capture the most minute details of a subject

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Fish-eye lens: 180-degree viewing
• Wide angle lens: 0.67x
• Material: aluminum

Includes:

• Fish Eye Lens
• Wide-Angle Lens
• Macro Lens
• 3 Lens Lanyard
• 3 Lens Covers
• Microfiber Cleaning Cloth
• Carrying Pouch
• Metal Rings
• Manufacturer’s 1 Year Warranty

Compatibility

• iPhone (Not compatible with iPhone 7)
• iPad
• Samsung
• Android smartphones and tablets

KEY FEATURES

Customers must be 21+ to purchase

The team behind FEZ engineered this vape to deliver the ultimate vaping experience, and nothing less. The stylish FEZ vaporizer boasts a range of customizable temperature settings, an impressively long battery life, and easier-than-ever heating and cleaning. Its unique build even eliminates toxic compounds so you can truly, discreetly enjoy your vape to its fullest.

• Heats up in under 60 seconds
• Plugs into your laptop to charge via USB
• Lasts for up to two thousand puffs on one charge
• Captures extra flavors & aroma w/ temperature-controlled design
• Comes w/ an easy cleaning kit

For Tobacco use only

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Dimensions: 3.5 inches
• Weight: 1 lb
• Materials: alloy, polycarbonate
• Spray with Isopropyl alcohol and use cleaning brush every three weeks

Includes:

• FEZ Vaporizer (black)

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No coding experience? This is the course for you. Whether you’ve dabbled in HTML or never touched a single line of code in your life, this course will prepare you to take on professional programming jobs, big and small. From basic CSS styling to popular frameworks like Bootstrap, this training will stack your resume with skills that will check every box on your dream job description.

• Become a professional developer w/ 330 lectures & 60 hours of content
• Understand the most popular languages & frameworks available
• Learn HTML5 & CSS3 to build and style web pages
• Use Javascript, jQuery & jQuery User Interface to make interactive sites
• Make responsive sites for any device w/ Twitter Bootstrap
• Study data-driven programming w/ PHP, Ajax & mySQL
• Build mobile apps for iOS & Android
• Deploy your apps to the Apple App & Google Play store

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Eng Issam Baou is a web developer, engineer, and teacher. He has two Masters Degrees in Engineering and Management from Cranfield University (UK) and Ecole Centrale Paris, and has worked for many world-class companies including Amadeus, Ford, and Airbus. His roles have included: Web Development, Consulting, Simulation, and Teaching.

KEY FEATURES

Web development has become a hugely lucrative and in-demand field, and whether you’re looking to build a career or pick up some extra cash building and monetizing your own websites, this course is for you. An enormous, fully immersive course in everything code, you’ll learn everything you need to start programming like a pro. It’s time to join the 21st century!

• Access 288 lectures & 30.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn fundamentals of HTML5, CSS3 & Python
• Build responsive websites w/ jQuery, PHP 7, MySQL 5 & Twitter Bootstrap
• Develop blogs & ecommerce sites w/ Wordpress
• Discover smart ways to add dynamic content by using APIs
• Receive free unlimited web hosting for one year
• Make a Twitter clone to put your knowledge into action

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Rob Percival has a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University. After building websites for friends and family for fun, he soon learned that web development was a very lucrative career choice. He gave up a successful job as a teacher to work part time and today, couldn’t be happier.

He’s passionate about teaching kids to code, so every summer he runs Code School in the beautiful city of Cambridge. He also runs the popular web hosting and design service, Eco Web Hosting which leaves him free to share my secrets with people like you. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Certainly you can spend endless hours pouring over the minutiae of game development theory, but the only way to really learn is by doing. Throughout this course, you’ll walk through the process of building 5 games for various Apple devices, master use of SpriteKit in Swift, and finish your lessons having built real apps you can proudly publish for immediate usage.

• Learn to code by building games w/ 5 hours of content
• Create 5 games for iPad, iPhone & OS X
• Master using Swift & SpriteKit for iOS 9
• Make simple art for your game in Photoshop & Illustrator
• Configure the logic of your games
• Export your apps & publish them to the iTunes Store
• Build skills transferrable to future endeavors

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: intermediate

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. He is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive, which produces XBOX, iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, and other games. To this day, John has contributed to 40 commercial games and counting, several of which have risen to number 1 in the iTunes App Store. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.

This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

KEY FEATURES

Why waste thousands of dollars on a formal video game development degree? Avoid a lifetime of loan payments, and get practical experience you can instantly use to develop your own games. In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn everything you need to create the next iTunes Store chart-topper: how to animate characters, model 2D and 3D images, and much more.

• Create premium video game art w/ 87 hours of content
• Access a wide array of game design topics: basic traditional drawing, training to be a professional video game artist, etc.
• Learn the basics of 3ds Max & use it to create real-life projects
• Understand 2D & 3D drawing techniques
• Fully master game layout & design principles
• Get a primer on video game art, animation, 2D & 3D modeling, layout, and design

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Free Autodesk 3ds Max Educational Version (36 month trial)
• Free Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended (1 month trial)
• Education Version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Essentials
• A PC for 3ds Max (there is no Mac compatible version of 3ds Max)

THE EXPERT

Stone River eLearning offers easy to understand online courses. They are very passionate about teaching topics that of interest – from technology, to business, to education. Stone River eLearning offers high-quality courses that take you from beginner to expert in a matter of hours. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.

This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

KEY FEATURES

Master game app creation by utilizing JavaScript in conjunction with the Phaser HTML5 development framework. With Phaser’s cross-platform features, you’ll gain an understanding of a hybrid app development process that will turn you into a flexible, versatile game developer, able to craft apps for both iOS and Android alike.

• Create 5 mobile games using JavaScript & the Phaser library w/ 10 hours of content
• Understand the hybrid app development process
• Configure home & loading screens, on-screen controls, etc.
• Jazz up your games w/ sound, text, animations & more
• Publish to the iOS & Android platforms w/ the Intel XDK
• Become proficient in JavaScript & HTML5 development

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Includes instruction on:

• Game 1: Farm animal toddlers game
• Game 2: Virtual pet game
• Game 3: Platformer Super Mario game
• Game 4: Multi-level spaceship game
• Game 5: Candy Match-3 game

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Pablo is a web and mobile app developer, as well as entrepreneur. He is also the founder of ZENVA, which runs four communities featuring game, web and mobile app development tutorials: Zenva Academy, GameDev Academy, HTML5 Hive (also known as “the hive”), and for Spanish speakers, De Idea A App. Besides teaching online how to create games, apps and websites to over 85,000 students, Pablo has created content for companies such as Amazon and Intel.

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The best way to create an iTunes chart-topper is by emulating one. In this course, you’ll be cloning the popular game, Crossy Road as you learn the best game development practices to create your own hit. Dive into obtaining your iOS developer license, create a game in Unity3D with minimal code, then use your newfound skills towards any future game development projects.

• Use Unity3D to create games w/ 6.5 hours of content
• Get your iOS developer license
• Create a game for iOS or Android using minimal code
• Program animations, build a game menu & keep score
• Import artwork into Unity3D & utilize it in the games you develop
• Learn how to publish games to the iTunes App Store

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: beginner

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Unity3D required (free download available)

THE EXPERT

Yohann Taleb is a leading expert in mobile game programming, app flipping and reskinning. Besides owning over 100 apps in the Apple and Android app, Yohann has helped dozens of students publish apps that have topped the iTunes Store leaderboards and been covered by publications like WIRED. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.

This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

KEY FEATURES

The demand for 3D modeling and animation skills is growing across a number of industries, from gaming to architecture, and there has never been a better time to delve into this exciting and lucrative field. In this course you’ll use Blender 3D, a feature-rich, free modeling and animation suite to bring 3D creations to life. The creative possibilities in Blender 3D are nearly limitless, as you’ll soon find out!

• Access 45 lectures & 6 hours of content 24/7
• Model your own 3D meshes using a variety of modeling techniques & workflows
• UV map objects using projection & unwrapping
• Texture 3D models & work w/ materials
• Configure scene lighting & use Blender’s animation tools to animate objects & scenes
• Work w/ ambient, atmospheric rendering effects
• Perform basic simulations using the built-in game engine

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Blender 3D required

THE EXPERT

Richard Sneyd is the CEO of CyberMyth Games, an independent game development studio based in Ireland. He also moonlights as a game design lecturer, drawing upon his years of experience creating games, and prides himself on his easily digestible teaching style. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.

This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

KEY FEATURES

Gaming in the Apple universe now extends to tvOS, and allows developers to leverage many of the same frameworks, technologies, and concepts of iOS development to build games for Apple TV. Whether you’re an experienced iOS programmer or brand new, this course will introduce you to core game development concepts while you build real games for both iOS and tvOS.

• Learn to build games for tvOS & iOS w/ 40 lectures & 10 hours of content
• Create a tvOS template for navigating between game scenes, passing data around classes & saving data using NSUserDefaults
• Build a retro 2d-style side scroller game from scratch for tvOS or iOS
• Share code & assets between a tvOS template & an iOS template
• Design physics-based environments & program simple, interactive characters
• Incorporate a property list to change variables on a per-level basis
• Discuss scoring, moving platforms, continue points, inventory & much more

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Justin Dike is the founder of CartoonSmart, one of the Internet’s first video training websites. He is a long-time illustrator and animator, focusing mostly on Adobe Flash, and experienced programmer with Swift, Sprite Kit, Actionscript 3, Objective C and Cocos2d. For CartoonSmart, he has recorded hundreds of hours of video tutorials, and recently published his first full length book, titled iOS Programming with Xcode and Cocos2d. Justin has also developed many iOS games, including a side scrolling game engine. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.

This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

KEY FEATURES

For gamers, there may be no better deal than Steamcrate, and for one low price you can start getting games digitally delivered directly to your computer every month. Steamcrate sends you 10 random games each month that are yours to keep. Forever. Every month you’ll experience a slew of epic new computer games that are guaranteed to range in value from $40 to $700 per crate. Now that is value.

Past crates have included Mortal Kombat X, Bioshock Infinite, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Batman Arkham Origins & more!

• Receive 10 games per month delivered to your computer for 3 months
• Discover new games every month w/ randomized crates of new releases
• Get exclusive entry into the Uber Crate giveaway every month, worth over $600
• Access games worldwide w/ no restrictions or downloadable content–just full games on Steam

This is for the 3-month subscription to Steamcrate. For other options, view drop-down above!

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Version 2
• 10 games/month for 3 months
• Guaranteed crate value of $40-700
• Average crate value: $102
• Updates included

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• Steam OS + Linux

SOFTWARE LICENSE DETAILS

• Length of access: 3 months
• Updates included
• License automatically renews at full 3-month subscription rate at end of coupon

KEY FEATURES

Hive is a Big Data processing tool that helps you leverage the power of distributed computing and Hadoop for analytical processing. Its interface is somewhat similar to SQL, but with some key differences. This course is an end-to-end guide to using Hive and connecting the dots to SQL. It’s perfect for both professional and aspiring data analysts and engineers alike. Don’t know SQL? No problem, there’s a primer included in this course!

• Access 86 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Write complex analytical queries on data in Hive & uncover insights
• Leverage ideas of partitioning & bucketing to optimize queries in Hive
• Customize Hive w/ user defined functions in Java & Python
• Understand what goes on under the hood of Hive w/ HDFS & MapReduce
  

  PRODUCT SPECS

  Details & Requirements

  


  • Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
  • Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
  • Certification of completion not included
  • Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Experience level required: all levels, but knowledge of SQL and Java would be helpful

  


  Compatibility

  • Internet required

  THE EXPERT

  Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Big Data sounds pretty daunting doesn’t it? Well, this course aims to make it a lot simpler for you. Using Hadoop and MapReduce, you’ll learn how to process and manage enormous amounts of data efficiently. Any company that collects mass amounts of data, from startups to Fortune 500, need people fluent in Hadoop and MapReduce, making this course a must for anybody interested in data science.

• Access 71 lectures & 13 hours of content 24/7
• Set up your own Hadoop cluster using virtual machines (VMs) & the Cloud
• Understand HDFS, MapReduce & YARN & their interaction
• Use MapReduce to recommend friends in a social network, build search engines & generate bigrams
• Chain multiple MapReduce jobs together
• Write your own customized partitioner
• Learn to globally sort a large amount of data by sampling input files

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals–Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh–who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Analysts and data scientists typically have to work with several systems to effectively manage mass sets of data. Spark, on the other hand, provides you a single engine to explore and work with large amounts of data, run machine learning algorithms, and perform many other functions in a single interactive environment. This course’s focus on new and innovating technologies in data science and machine learning makes it an excellent one for anyone who wants to work in the lucrative, growing field of Big Data.

• Access 52 lectures & 8 hours of content 24/7
• Use Spark for a variety of analytics & machine learning tasks
• Implement complex algorithms like PageRank & Music Recommendations
• Work w/ a variety of datasets from airline delays to Twitter, web graphs, & product ratings
• Employ all the different features & libraries of Spark, like RDDs, Dataframes, Spark SQL, MLlib, Spark Streaming & GraphX

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Python and Java are assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

The functional programming nature and the availability of a REPL environment make Scala particularly well suited for a distributed computing framework like Spark. Using these two technologies in tandem can allow you to effectively analyze and explore data in an interactive environment with extremely fast feedback. This course will teach you how to best combine Spark and Scala, making it perfect for aspiring data analysts and Big Data engineers.

• Access 51 lectures & 8.5 hours of content 24/7
• Use Spark for a variety of analytics & machine learning tasks
• Understand functional programming constructs in Scala
• Implement complex algorithms like PageRank & Music Recommendations
• Work w/ a variety of datasets from airline delays to Twitter, web graphs, & Product Ratings
• Use the different features & libraries of Spark, like RDDs, Dataframes, Spark SQL, MLlib, Spark Streaming, & GraphX
• Write code in Scala REPL environments & build Scala applications w/ an IDE
  

  PRODUCT SPECS

  Details & Requirements

  


  • Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
  • Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
  • Certification of completion not included
  • Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Java or C++ is assumed

  


  Compatibility

  • Internet required

  THE EXPERT

  Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

For Big Data engineers and data analysts, HBase is an extremely effective databasing tool for organizing and manage massive data sets. HBase allows an increased level of flexibility, providing column oriented storage, no fixed schema and low latency to accommodate the dynamically changing needs of applications. With the 25 examples contained in this course, you’ll get a complete grasp of HBase that you can leverage in interviews for Big Data positions.

• Access 41 lectures & 4.5 hours of content 24/7
• Set up a database for your application using HBase
• Integrate HBase w/ MapReduce for data processing tasks
• Create tables, insert, read & delete data from HBase
• Get a complete understanding of HBase & its role in the Hadoop ecosystem
• Explore CRUD operations in the shell, & with the Java API

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge Java is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Think about the last time you saw a completely unorganized spreadsheet. Now imagine that spreadsheet was 100,000 times larger. Mind-boggling, right? That’s why there’s Pig. Pig works with unstructured data to wrestle it into a more palatable form that can be stored in a data warehouse for reporting and analysis. With the massive sets of disorganized data many companies are working with today, people who can work with Pig are in major demand. By the end of this course, you could qualify as one of those people.

• Access 34 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Clean up server logs using Pig
• Work w/ unstructured data to extract information, transform it, & store it in a usable form
• Write intermediate level Pig scripts to munge data
• Optimize Pig operations to work on large data sets

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of SQL, Hadoop, and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Data sets can outgrow traditional databases, much like children outgrow clothes. Unlike, children’s growth patterns, however, massive amounts of data can be extremely unpredictable and unstructured. For Big Data, the Cassandra distributed database is the solution, using partitioning and replication to ensure that your data is structured and available even when nodes in a cluster go down. Children, you’re on your own.

• Access 44 lectures & 5.5 hours of content 24/7
• Set up & manage a cluster using the Cassandra Cluster Manager (CCM)
• Create keyspaces, column families, & perform CRUD operations using the Cassandra Query Language (CQL)
• Design primary keys & secondary indexes, & learn partitioning & clustering keys
• Understand restrictions on queries based on primary & secondary key design
• Discover tunable consistency using quorum & local quorum
• Learn architecture & storage components: Commit Log, MemTable, SSTables, Bloom Filters, Index File, Summary File & Data File
• Build a Miniature Catalog Management System using the Cassandra Java driver

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of SQL, Hadoop, and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Working with Big Data, obviously, can be a very complex task. That’s why it’s important to master Oozie. Oozie makes managing a multitude of jobs at different time schedules, and managing entire data pipelines significantly easier as long as you know the right configurations parameters. This course will teach you how to best determine those parameters, so your workflow will be significantly streamlined.

• Access 23 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Install & set up Oozie
• Configure Workflows to run jobs on Hadoop
• Create time-triggered & data-triggered Workflows
• Build & optimize data pipelines using Bundles

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Hadoop and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Flume and Sqoop are important elements of the Hadoop ecosystem, transporting data from sources like local file systems to data stores. This is an essential component to organizing and effectively managing Big Data, making Flume and Sqoop great skills to set you apart from other data analysts.

• Access 16 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Use Flume to ingest data to HDFS & HBase
• Optimize Sqoop to import data from MySQL to HDFS & Hive
• Ingest data from a variety of sources including HTTP, Twitter & MySQL

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but knowledge of HDFS, HBase, and Hive shells is required

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.