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Coding looks intimidating, but you can learn it like any other skill. Just start with the basics.

My husband is a tech guy through and through -- tinkering in code to build simple apps and websites just for fun. I'm not. I knew my way around MySpace HTML back in the day (enough to change my background at least) and could navigate WordPress for my college newspaper, but those skills are quite rusty now.

Learning to code is a valuable skill for almost anyone working in our digital world. And though unemployment levels are high due to the coronavirus pandemic, tech companies like Apple and Amazon are still hiring. Picking up some coding skills could help you get a foot in the door.

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Before you get started, it's important to know that the language you'll want to learn -- Python, Javascript, C#, or one of hundreds of others -- hinges on what you want to do with it, like build a website, an app or a game. For example, if you're interested in learning coding to working in a professional setting, you might want to explore Python, Java or C#, which are all in-demand by many companies.

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We've pulled together five beginner online classes that explore the foundational concepts of coding. Some touch on specific languages, and some stay more general. But all can help you get your start learning a programming language.

The Coding for Beginners course describes itself as a foundational level course for complete beginners that introduces students to common coding concepts like bugs, pseudo code and how code runs. The concepts can then be applied to whichever programming language you go on to learn. Over 30 lectures will help you build the skillset to build a simple app in both coding languages Scratch and Python, the final project of the course.

What it costs: Some online classes on Skillshare are free when you create an account, but most require a premium membership, which costs $99 annually or $19 a month. You can sign up for 14 free days of unlimited classes. The premium membership is also ad-free and lets you download classes to your mobile device and watch offline.

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Digital agency founder Evan Kimbrell's pre-programming course also starts with foundational concepts, like how the computer itself, the internet and operating systems fit into programming. This might sound too basic, but if you're just starting on your learning journey, it's helpful context.

Eventually, the lessons focus in on the core concepts of coding, different programming languages, front-end and back-end frameworks, application programming interfaces (APIs), content management systems (CMS) and other more advanced concepts.

What it costs: Udemy's course prices are set by the individual instructors from a price tier, unless they choose to offer them for free. The course cost $14 during a special sale.

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Software engineer Cas Van Gool's course focuses on the basics of programming found in any software language. The class tackles topics like variables, strings, integers, if-statements, while-statements, for-statements and for each-statements. Van Gool provides step-by-step exercises and build projects with C#, from shopping lists to minigames. You'll also need to download the free Visual Studio Code source code editor program from Microsoft for this course.

This course would be useful if you're interested in coding for games or getting started on a professional level.

What it costs: Some online classes on Skillshare are free when you create an account, but most require a premium membership, which costs $99 annually or $19 a month. You can sign up for 14 free days of unlimited classes. The premium membership is also ad-free and lets you download classes to your mobile device and watch offline.

The Programming Foundations with Javascript, HTML and CSS course, offered through Duke University, explores skills like HTML, JavaScript, Java programming and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You'll learn how to write programs, solve complex problems, design algorithms, and test and debug your programs.

The programming foundations course is part of the five-course Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization. You can enroll in a single course to get started and earn a certificate, or audit the class and review the materials for free. The Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization is considered a beginner specialization, and if you subscribe to one course, you'll be included in the whole specialization.

The course requires a laptop or desktop computer for Java programming and that you make a free account on CodePen.io. If you choose to continue with the other courses, you'll need to install Bluej, free software for Java development.

This course would be most useful if you're interested in coding for websites.

What it costs: In comparison with Skillshare or Udemy, Coursera operates more like a traditional online college course with enrollment windows. Sometimes the certificates you earn can apply as a credit at an institution, but it has to be stated. When you sign up for Coursera, you get a seven-day free trial and then it costs $49 a month. You can also choose to audit the class for free, which lets you read and view the course content only.

Again, what you ultimately want to do with your programming skills will determine what coding language you'll want to learn. What I liked about the Coding for Beginners course on Udemy is that it touches on the basics of five different programming languages -- Javascript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS. You'll get to dabble in each language and build applications like calculators, digital clocks, music players and blog pages. This helps give you a taste of how each operates while also giving you some hands-on experience and projects.

What it costs: Udemy's course prices are set by the individual instructors from a price tier, unless they choose to offer them for free. This course costs $14 during a special sale.

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Newest version of Altair Monarch now available

Altair Monarch is easy-to-use with no coding required to clean, join, append, and transform difficult and messy data into data ready for analytics and machine learning.

New feature in Altair Monarch: Excel Trappings

New feature in Altair Monarch: Excel trapping, designed to trap data from complex Excel spreadsheets that have merged cells, multiple tabs, conditional formatted cells and rows, and may have complicated cell functions.

TROY, Mich., June 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, today announced the latest launch of Altair Monarch, a major new release of its powerful and intuitive data preparation solution. Marking the 30th anniversary of Monarchs original launch, the new version strengthens the ability of users to extract and convert data automatically from sources including Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and text-based files, and prepare it quickly and precisely for efficient data analysis and machine learning predictions.

By converting data from any source into rows and columns without any need for coding, Monarch quickly generates clean and accessible reports. More than 80 pre-built functions are available, enabling laborious and error-prone manual data preparation tasks to be fully automated. Reports that previously took hours or even days to create are now completed in minutes. As a result, users are free to focus on value added data analysis that supports better decision making.

Key features new to Monarch include:

With a global user community in the tens of thousands, Monarch encompasses our long experience of helping customers overcome complex data preparation challenges, said Sam Mahalingam, chief technical officer, Altair. Thirty years to the day since the original launch, it is entirely appropriate that we now offer even greater freedom to transform data from multiple sources into a powerful business asset.

A free trial of Monarch is available at https://web.altair.com/monarch-free-trial and more information can be found at https://www.altair.com/monarch/.

For more insight into Altairs data analytics offerings, join us at the virtual Altair Data Analytics Summit on June 23-25 to be immersed in the technologies and ideas that drive smarter decision-making: https://web.altair.com/data-analytics-summit.

About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics.Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.To learn more, please visit http://www.altair.com.

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The studys methodology is based on an analysis of a record total of 157,525 incidents. Of those, 32,002 met Verizons quality standards, and 3,950 were confirmed data breaches. The report is based on an analysis of those findings. Please see Appendix A for the methodology.

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As more employers reopen their offices, stores, and warehouses, a growing number of health tech companies are pitching smartphone apps and other tools to help them bring employees back to work safely in the Covid-19 era.

The tools go far beyond the infrared thermometers and temperature checks that have dominated the conversation around safely reopening. The new wave of software products allows employers to direct their workers to get a Covid-19 test, clear them to return to work, track their symptoms, and trace the contacts of anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus.

The rollouts are forcing digital health vendors and their employer customers to navigate a range of unprecedented legal, cultural, and financial questions. Among them: What kinds of surveillance can employers require their workers to submit to and will employees actually use these tools?

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Theres also a looming question of whether employers will be willing to shell out for yet another wellness product at a time when theyre trying to avoid more layoffs and furloughs.

Theyre going to have to, to some degree, if they want to bring their employees back, said Greg Chittim, who co-leads the digital health and health IT practice at the consulting firm Health Advances.

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In industries where routine screenings such as drug testing is not the norm, Chittim said, a large portion of the workforce will need to wrestle with how they transition to that and the executive teams and the benefits managers need to figure out how to buy that, and who to buy it from, and what they need, and how they can do it.

So far, the push on these offerings has been led by health tech companies that in normal times charge employers to help their workers navigate their health benefits. For example, Castlight Health last month rolled out its Working Well tool, which, among other things, uses machine learning to let employers forecast trends in health and productivity for the workforce.

Then theres Collective Health, which last month unveiled its Collective Go tool, which offers employers a free set of guidelines for returning to work and a paid app for workers to check their symptoms and exposures and navigate the status of their Covid-19 tests.

The idea is to provide evidence-based guidance to employers that otherwise dont know how to go about developing a return-to-work plan, said Rajaie Batniji, the companys chief health officer. In the absence of clear leadership here or clear guidance from the government, a lot of employers feel like theyre having to play armchair epidemiologist and very few employers are really positioned to do that, Batniji said.

Collective is immediately charging for the offering an approach that stands in contrast to some other back-to-work tools being rolled out for free, at least for now. Microsoft and the insurer UnitedHealth Group last month announced that they would offer U.S. employers free access to their ProtectWell smartphone app, designed to screen employees for Covid-19 symptoms and clear them for work.

Collective said it is signing up employers for the service through deals that are being inked separately from its existing benefits navigation contracts. The company declined to disclose any names of its new Collective Go customers, but said that one of its first customers is in the childcare services category; it is also seeing demand from medical systems, gig-economy services, manufacturers, and retail.

Many health tech companies are pitching their products to industries such as manufacturing that rely on warehouses and other physical workspaces, as well as essential businesses that dont need to go back to work, but whose employees have been at their workplace throughout the pandemic. The businesses theyre less focused on: Mostly white-collar industries that have the luxury of allowing their employees to continue to work from the couch at home.

Thats by design. While tech companies in Silicon Valley and other urban hubs have been early adopters of some digital health technologies, they have not historically accounted for a huge chunk of the revenue for employee wellness companies, which count on large blue chip employers with staff who tend to be older and sicker. And in the Covid-19 era, tech companies have signaled that they may be among the last to bring their workers back into the office, making them unlikely clients in the back-to-work business.

As has been the case in the employee wellness sector for years, some of the back-to-work tools may raise questions about whether employers are invading their workers privacy and so digital health vendors pitching pandemic-related services are taking steps to try to steer clear of such concerns.

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The tool lets employees print out a letter with that status that they can hand to their bosses. Jvion is also working on an update to the tool that would notify an employer of that status directly. But thats all that will ever be shared with an employer, said John Showalter, a physician who serves as Jvions chief product officer.

The employers that weve talked to are very much concerned with their employee privacy, Showalter said. They dont want the answers that we have from our surveys, and we dont want to give them the answers from the surveys.

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