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An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...writing in the early 1980s, defined engineering as ‘the practice of organising the design and construction of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognised need’ (Rogers, 1983). Rogers was not a software developer, but an engineer specialising in thermodynamics and jet-engine development. Yet his definition captures the essence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...writings, Schmitt has discouraged readings of this distinction that stress annihilation as the inevitable telos of such an antagonism, but affirmed the need to think the ‘enemy’ as that which binds any one sphere of the political as an ethico-political space. Schmitt’s desire for distinction is alive in contemporary legal orthodoxy. The prosecution of piracy as a...
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Article 15 mins
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...writing ‘YOU’ in the centre circle on your piece of paper. Next, write the names (and their relationship to you) of those individuals who are most significant in your life in the first circle out from the centre. In the next circle out, add those people that you are ‘less close to’, but who are ‘still very important’. In the outer circle, add any people who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...writing 3 x 3, we write 32 and express this as three to the ‘power’ or ‘order’ of 2.) Brackets are the first term used in BODMAS and should always be used to avoid any possibility of ambiguity or misunderstanding. A better way of writing 12 + 21 x 3 is thus 12 + (21 x 3). This makes it clear which operation should be done first. 12 + (21 x 3) is thus done on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence . The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Video: Official Law reports: From: Scottish Council of Law Reporting...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...creative process that involves strategic decision makers at various levels of an organisation. In this process, the work of strategic teams resembles that of an artist aiming to express their thoughts and ideas on canvas; hence the name business model canvas. You will explore this tool and how you can apply it in greater detail in Section 4 on designing business...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
‘There Were Four of Us’
History & The Arts

‘There Were Four of Us’

...write a ghost story,’ Lord Byron said one rainy evening in Switzerland in the summer of 1816. ‘There were four of us,’ Mary Shelley recalled fifteen years later. Herself, the two illustrious poets – Byron and her husband Percy Shelley – and ‘Poor Polidori,’ Byron’s hapless personal physician. Out of this moment, not one but two modern horror legends were...
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Article 5 mins
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...writes that assessing the risks surrounding nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation means understanding inter-dependent elements − including what science says is possible, what other countries may intend, and systemic factors such as regional power dynamics. “The risk of climate change demands a similarly holistic assessment,” she says. Value human life She...
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Article 10 mins