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ACM Skills Bundle Add-On

ACM has created a new Skills Bundle add-on providing unlimited access to ACM's collection of thousands of online books, courses, and training videos from O'Reilly, Skillsoft Percipio, and Pluralsight. ACM’s collection includes more than 60,000 online books and video courses from O’Reilly, 9,700 online courses and 11,000 eBooks and audiobooks from Skillsoft, and 2,000 courses from Pluralsight.

The new Skills Bundle add-on is available to paid Professional Members only. Visit the ACM subscription page or contact Member Services to add the Skills Bundle to your membership.

ACM ByteCast

Listen to ACM ByteCast!

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Mary Lou Jepsen, CEO and Founder of Openwater, a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware with about 300 patents published or issued to her name. She founded and led two moonshots at Google X and was later an executive at Facebook/Oculus VR. Prior to this, she was a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she co-founded and was the first CTO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), and later founded Pixel Qi in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on the design and manufacture of displays. Jepsen has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time 100”), CNN’s top “10 thinkers” in science and technology and has won numerous awards numerous from professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics. She’s a frequent keynote speaker, has given two highly viewed TED talks, and is frequently featured in top global press publications.

ACM TechTalks

Angelica Lo Duca TechTalk

Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk, "Applying Cinematic Techniques to Data Storytelling," presented on Thursday, March 27 at 12:00 PM ET/17:00 UTC by Angelica Lo Duca, Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy. Victor Yocco, Director of Research and Strategy at Allelo Design, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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New Pluralsight Courses and Learning Paths

We have added dozens of new and updated Pluralsight learning paths, with hundreds of new courses added. These significant new additions to the custom ACM Pluralsight course library extend coverage of today’s most in-demand skills, technologies, and vendor certifications, including coverage of .NET and Blazor, Angular, AWS and Azure cloud, C#, Data Engineering, DevOps and ITOps, Generative AI and Machine Learning, Java and the Spring Framework, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, React, and Rust.

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Beginning Python 3 with Grok 2

This book is a comprehensive guide designed to teach the fundamentals of Python programming while introducing the exciting possibilities of Generative AI. Whether you’re a novice or a developer looking to integrate Grok into your workflow, this book offers a clear, step-by-step path to mastering Python and leveraging AI-driven code generation. It begins by covering Python fundamentals, including data types, string manipulation, loops, conditional logic, and exception handling. It then introduces Python collections, such as lists, dictionaries, and sets, along with their practical applications.

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Architecting React Applications with Next.js

In this course, you'll learn to solve these challenges with the tools and strategies needed to architect robust, maintainable, and high-performing applications. First, you'll take a deep dive into React's latest features like Suspense, Server Components, and Server-side Rendering (SSR) within the Next.js framework. Next, you'll explore common pain points when scaling React apps and how to optimize applications using Next.js’ built-in capabilities, such as static site generation and dynamic rendering. Finally, you'll review practical examples, like managing a shopping cart and implementing server actions, gaining hands-on experience with techniques that streamline complex state management and data fetching.

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Manage Virtual Machine Snapshots v8

In this Challenge Lab, you will manage virtual machine snapshots in your vSphere environment. First, you will create a snapshot of a running virtual machine that includes the virtual machine’s memory, and then you will create a snapshot of a running virtual machine that does not include the virtual machine’s memory. Next, you will modify the hardware on a virtual machine by using a snapshot. Finally, you will manage multiple snapshots on a single virtual machine, and then you will delete a snapshot.

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Breaking News: CVEs and Hot Takes

This path covers critical, new vulnerabilities and exploits discovered - what they are, how to identify them in your environment, and what risks are of concern to cybersecurity professionals. Next, it discusses popular topics in Hot Takes! Security experts weigh in and give opinions on the recent breaches, emerging technologies or techniques that may, or may not, change the landscape of cybersecurity and technology.

ACM TechTalks

Sarah Drasner TechTalk

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "The Death of Work: Leading Effective Engineering Teams," presented by Sarah Drasner, Senior Director of Engineering at Google. Eve Andersson, Senior Director at Google and member of the ACM Professional Development Committee, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

ACM TechTalks

Wei-Meng Lee TechTalk

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Unlock Hugging Face: Simplify AI with Transformers, LLMs, RAG, Fine-Tuning," presented by Wei-Meng Lee, Founder of Developer Learning Solutions. Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

Discover ACM Selects - Shortlists of Learning Resources Curated by Experts

ACM Selects are themed shortlists curated by subject matter experts for both serious and emerging computing professionals, with the goal of providing new ways to discover relevant resources. Please visit our archive of Selects on a variety of subjects which is available here.

ACM Case Studies

Written by leading domain experts for software engineers, ACM Case Studies provide an in-depth look at how software teams overcome specific challenges by implementing new technologies, adopting new practices, or a combination of both. Often through first-hand accounts, these pieces explore what the challenges were, the tools and techniques that were used to combat them, and the solution that was achieved.

ACM Distinguished Speakers Program

The Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) is one of ACM's most valued outreach programs, providing universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and local ACM chapters with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry. ACM will cover the cost of transportation for the speaker to travel to your event.