#learning tracks

Coding Blocks, established in 2014, aims to produce skill sets among the programmers to bridge the gap between the qualities of skills required by IT firms and the quality of skills cultivated by conventional institutes. The elimination of this skill gap creates industry-ready engineers, which forges the value added to shape the technology industry of India.

To tackle this problem, Coding Blocks has recently introduced a rather simpler approach, Learning Tracks, to make learning more accessible to students. 

What are Learning Tracks?

The experts of Coding Blocks came up with this remarkable idea of the systematically designed paths that help you enhance your skills in a much smoother way. Learning Tracks are thoughtfully designed with an aim to make the students clarify their learning objectives at each step-in order to amplify their coding experience.

Courses:

C++ Data Structures & Algorithms- It is a uniquely designed course for tech-geeks where you can start learning C++ from scratch. The course is systematically formulated for the purpose of enhancing the coding skills of the students to make them a successful software developer.

Track:

Algorithms in C++

C++ Standard Template Library

Data Structures in C++

C++ Fundamentals

Java Data Structures & Algorithms- Java Fundamentals course is a remarkably planned online course designed for those who want to learn the basics of Java. The focus of the course is to maintain a balance between theoretical knowledge and practical approach to Java up to advanced level.

Track:

Java Fundamentals

Data Structures in Java

Competitive Programming- The course deals with the aim to provide competitive coding training to interested people. You can learn advanced data structures and algorithmic concepts, along with different interesting projects based on the concepts.

Track:

C++ Standard Template Library

Competitive Programming

Dynamic Programming

 Data Science- Data Science, one of the hottest skills of technology, is reaching a high demand in today’s tech-world. The course will make you learn Python from scratch and move to the advanced levels by learning Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Track:

Python Fundamentals

Python for Data Science

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Web Development- The course provides an opportunity to learn with the basics of Web Development and follows a project-based learning approach to get hands-on experience in front-end and back-end web development.

Track:

Web Development Frontend (HTML/CSS)

Web Development Backend

Android Apps- With the fundamental knowledge of programming concepts, one can learn the fundamentals of UI and master building an Android app.

Track:

Java Fundamentals

Android App Development

Learning Tracks for Royals by Lorde(as Performed by Pentatonix) -

Please disregard the silence at the beginning that is where the theoretical beatbox intro would go but i cant do beats

Productive we so far; we got the last of Leannan Sidhe’s major guitar recording down in the lair. Still a few drop-ins to do, and fixes, but the heavy lifting in guitar is over. Yay!

Today, I’m busy building out melody parts for the Free Court of Seattle soundtrack album. I made learning tracks for the traditional music a couple of weeks ago, for the other musicians appearing on the album, but the fight scene set is really difficult to understand, so…

…I might explain what a learning track is. And a set, for that matter.

Okay! So, the basic element of Irish music is the “tune.” It’s a melody, typically in repeating parts (A/B, often A/B/C, sometimes A/B/C/D or more) which may and may not have basic chord and/or drum accompaniment. The melody is the defining element of the tune; the rest is optional. Here’s an example tune:

<a href="http://hammerhands.bandcamp.com/track/the-road-to-lisdoonvarna-2">The Road to Lisdoonvarna by HammerHands</a>

A set is simply a collection of tunes arranged together into a longer piece. As in hiphop, flow is critical, tho’ instead of lyric flow it’s melodic flow. These were historically performed in participatory playing circles, at pubs, in sessions. Those tend to look a bit like this:

The learning tracks I’ve been working on are rough mockups of some of the sets which will be appearing on the Free Court of Seattle book series soundtrack. (The link is to Book 1 on Amazon; also in print, B&N/Nook, and Kobo). You build learning tracks by taking other peoples’ performances and editing them together into a single recording that can be studied and learned from.

Most of the sets for this album are traditional; that’s intentional, being the music that informs the early parts of the book series. But for one set – for a conflict scene involving kitsune, a dragon, Our Heroes, and so on – we’re bringing in some Japanese traditional music.

To make this melding work, I’ve written a variation on one of the Irish standards as a bridging piece, and am not so much building a set as arranging the elements like one would for an orchestral piece. It’s… complicated.

And since some of this has never been recorded by anyone – my March towards Lisdoonvarna, mostly – the current learning track is a hideous mashup of flute and taiko, bagpipes and accordion, and me whistling something nobody’s heard before into a microphone.

Worst. Learning track. Evar. It’s totally incoherent.

So I’m currently learning all of these parts the hard way, and playing them on bouzouki. Once it’s all on the same instrument, it makes a lot more sense. But I’m not traditionally a big melody player on strings, which means I’m learning! new! skills! and means it’s taking for-bloody-evar.

But it’ll be cool.

Finally, a reminder from the Guild: don’t let the supervillain get bored. All CDs are on sale, so give them to friends and rivals, frenemies and nemeses, and help spread the rage. Besides, we need the money to record our new music. We can steal everything but time, and it’s just plain faster sometimes to buy things, you know? I mean honestly, who wants to spend time planning the grand supertheft of a breakfast bagel? I have better things to do. Or worse. Muah ha ha.