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Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Copilot, CI/CD, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), GitHub, C# (Programming Language), HTML and CSS, ASP.NET, SQL, Database Management, Object Oriented Design, Continuous Integration, Version Control, Git (Version Control System), Frontend Integration, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Responsive Web Design, Web Development, Secure Coding, .NET Framework, Graph Theory
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