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Python Developer: What They Can Do, Earn, and More
As a Python developer, you can do everything from web or game development to quantitative analysis or creating new programming languages. Learn more about this career.
March 10, 2022
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Software Development
Learn more about the skills and certifications you need for a career as software or DevOps engineer, mainframe developer, QA tester, and more.
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Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Istio, HTML and CSS, Node.JS, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, Kubernetes, Unit Testing, Object-Relational Mapping, Cloud Computing Architecture, Server Side, Application Deployment, React Redux, Cloud Services, Cloud-Native Computing, Git (Version Control System), Full-Stack Web Development, Cloud Computing, Jupyter, Interviewing Skills
Skills you'll gain: Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, Software Design, Scrum (Software Development), Software Engineering, Agile Methodology, Software Development Methodologies, Unified Modeling Language, Programming Principles, Application Development, Web Development, Python Programming
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Skills you'll gain: CI/CD, GitHub, C# (Programming Language), HTML and CSS, Load Balancing, Continuous Integration, Git (Version Control System), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Scalability, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Authentications, ASP.NET, Full-Stack Web Development, Web Development, Debugging, SQL, Application Deployment, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Copilot, Graph Theory
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