20 Effective Recipes To Become a Real Chef On The Web [April Online Courses Edition]

28 April 2017 Ann King

Spring is already in the air, the sun shines, birds sing, and people are finally awakening from a cold winter. Spring is a great time not only for chilling but also for developing ourselves with the help of various online courses!

Small wonder that people choose to learn online instead of full-time courses and workshops. The era of web education gives us freedom of choice, location, time, and even of preferences, therefore, we can boost our knowledge and develop our skills the way we like being anywhere in the world. People may say that online education is not so reliable and verified as a regular one. Many men - many minds, you know.

However, my friend Benjamin got the desired job thanks to online courses. Being from the Dominican Republic, and cooking exotic dishes from childhood, he was dreaming of Italy and a chef position in a gourmet Italian restaurant. In short, it was very hard and pretty expensive for him to visit Italy for studying an Italian cuisine there. He was on the verge of giving up on his dream. Fortunately, we’ve found online courses covered by Italian cuisine masters.

Benj studied hard and, finally, got certified after taking that classes. He made new connections from all over the world during that courses, found lots of soulmates and partners who totally clarified his way as a chef. He found his best recipe and went through a long way to reach his dream, but now he owns his gourmet restaurant in Italy, and moves on day by day! Benjamin’s story proves that whether you feel happy because of cooking mouthwatering meals, embroidering patterns on clothing, spicing up websites with outstanding designs, developing software, writing books, or doing any other great thing, self-education online is an effective way to make the better career.

Got inspired by my friend’s success, I decided to continue collecting the best online courses from all over the web here, in one place. If you missed something, take a look at our winter online courses bundle and at some cooler online courses for future web professionals. It’s time to refresh and to dive in a colorful spring edition where you can find your successful recipe, so, here we go! 🙂

Get involved into spring design!

Demystifying Graphic Design: How Posters Work

Ellen Lupton will help you to discover six outstanding moves that make graphic design so attractive and compelling. You will see how posters work inside a Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, located in NY. Ellen will guide you on how to attract people’s eyes, to tell the story, and to compose mind-blowing and emotional design. Therefore, if you’re a graphic designer, illustrator, or just curious about learning something new, hurry up to join this course!

Cost: Sign up and learn this course for free 🙂

Expressive Illustration: From Ideas to Execution

Join this course with Roman Muradov to learn everything about creative and conceptual illustrations. This class will help you to get inspired, to expand your visual vocabulary, to generate new ideas, and more! See illustration creation process underneath with a huge experience of the coach. If you’re a cool illustrator, visual artist, or just a person who is looking for the inspiration, hurry up to join this course!

Cost: The course is premium. You can unlock the access to 15.000 online courses by choosing your preferred plan. Monthly - $15, Annual- $10 per month, billed $120 once a year, Teams - per student/billed annually (learn more). A free trial is also available.

Data Visualization: Designing Maps with Processing and Illustrator

Nicholas Felton, a New-York based information designer, will teach you how to process a large amount of data with the help of design. Your coach in this course is one of the lead designers of Facebook’s timeline, therefore, be ready for an exciting journey of exploring the world with data and design. If you’re interested in design, geometry, data, etc., you’re very welcome to join this course.

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society

This is an excellent online course from the University of Pennsylvania that will help you to improve your design skills. You’ll get versatile design challenges weekly and will show how you can solve all the issues there. Being a part of this course you will discover such aspects as an introduction to design, customers needs and drawing solutions, design concepts, concept selection and prototyping, aesthetics, and final project submission. Define, explore, select, and refine with this cool online course! (You can purchase a certificate at the end of the course).

Cost: Free 🙂

Designing the Future

This course from RMIT will help you to learn contemporary design approaches to embodying your design thinking to modern problems. In this course, you will learn strategic, transdisciplinary, transition and service design. There is one thing that I adore about this course: it is indeed perfect for designers and non-designers as well. So, join this course to learn everything about designing the future with Marius Foley.

Cost: Free, a paid certificate is available.

Refresh the way you code!

Programming Graphics I: Introduction to Generative Art

Joshua Davis will teach you to set up a great programming workflow, to deal with HYPE framework, to create grids and shapes with your assets, to output your files to Photoshop and Illustrator, and many more! So, if you’re dreaming of discovering the art of programming, you’re very welcome to take this course.

Launch A Rocket: Learn JavaScript Basics The Fun Way!

Looking for effective JavaScript online courses? Rich Armstrong will show you the funny side of web development! You will learn JavaScript basics and will discover how it interacts with CSS and HTML. Modern web is waiting for you to explore!

WordPress Academy: Master WordPress step by step

Dreaming of mastering WordPress from scratch? Join this exciting and entertaining course with Chris Dixon! The most popular content management system is waiting for you to get started. Therefore, if you want to connect your career with WordPress, hurry up to join this course!

Hand-Coding Your First Website: HTML and CSS Basics

Rich Armstrong presents another cool online course for you! You will learn all the details about HTML and CSS in a simple manner. Moreover, you’ll be able to publish your websites and to share anything you like via interwebs by the end of the course.

Learn JQuery: A Fun And Simple Introduction!

Learn jQuery with Rich Armstrong in an easy-to-understand way! This course will help you to master your website building skills with hands down!

3D Graphics for Web Developers

Looking for the best online course to explore the power of 3D graphics in web development? Take this cool one covered by Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona. Five weeks of new classes will help you to be a pro in such aspects as 3D scene creation, visual appearance with WebGL, textures, materials, and many more! An intermediate level of programming skills will help you to get started with this course.

Cost: This course is free, a paid certificate is available.

Pump up your business and lifestyle!

Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World

Discover the full power of marketing with Gary Vaynerchuk by building a strong strategy for your brand. You will learn how to create long-term relationships with your clients and to tailor your social media content. Gary will also provide you with real-life examples to learn from others ups and downs. So, if you're dreaming of an active online presence, hurry up to join this course!

Become a SpeedDemon: Productivity & Automation Tricks to Have More Time. Gain 2+ Hrs/Wk Guaranteed!

Jonathan Levi is waiting for you to teach you the best tricks and tips for excellent productivity. This course will help you to become a productivity monster, hence, to boost your business and everyday life.