Mapt Beta has now been live for almost a month. Since then, we’ve been working hard to improve and iterate based on feedback from you – so thanks for your help, you’re an important part of the team. We know that when it comes to software it’s important to stay up to date – so we’re going to update you on what new features and content we’ve added.
Here’s what’s new this month…
New Skill Plans
First off, we’re changing the way our Skill Plans work based off feedback from you. We’ve had a great response to our first set of Skill Plans, but many of you mentioned you wanted to be able to focus on a specific technology within the role around which a Skill Plan has been designed.
In response, we are adding new Specialisations into our Skill Plans. This will be an extra layer of curation that enables you to pick a specific technology or stack to learn or hone your skills. We’ll be adding new specialisations on an ongoing basis, guided by the technologies developers are using today and tomorrow in their roles.
Front End Web Development is moving fast right now, and it’s tough to keep pace with the newest technologies. Our core Front End Web Development Skill Plan uses Angular, still a key technology for the web, but with new releases and new libraries emerging, there’s a strong case for looking at evolutions and alternatives. With this in mind we’ve added new specialisations in Front End Web Development, based on the cutting edge web technologies top developers are using. This month we have introduced two new specialisations: Angular 2, and React.
Angular 2 combines TypeScript with component-based development to create powerful web applications based on the newest web standards.
React, on the other hand, is the firebrand framework allowing developers to craft modular, reusable web application UIs.
Explore the new Skill Plans now
New Courses
We’ll be adding over 50 new courses to Mapt every month. Here’s a selection of some of the great courses that were added in July:
- Getting Started with Tensorflow
- Data Mining with Python: Implementing Classification and Regression
- Introduction to R Programming
- Mastering Docker [Video]
Explore all our new releases in the library now
New Features
Skill Assessments (coming soon!)
It’s not just about what you think you know, it’s about how well you know it. Identifying the strengths and, crucially, the gaps in your knowledge is key to staying on top of your game and making sure your learning time is spent most effectively. That’s why from next month we’ll start launching Skill Assessments to help you understand and improve your proficiency on the key skills you need to stay relevant.
Made up of real-world coding tasks, multiple-choice questions, and code completion challenges, we’ve designed them to give you the best understanding possible of your current skill set – and where you need to work to develop it.
Other Release Notes and Bug Fixes:
- Added ‘Buy’, ‘Download’ and ‘Save’ functions to product lists, meaning users can buy, download and save titles for later more quickly than before.
- Buy buttons for courses now include the price of content so that during campaigns users can clearly see the promotional price.
- Enhanced the speed of the library and search functions.
- Sidebar navigation menu now behaves like an accordion in order to make the user experience more intuitive and useful.
- The dashboard sidebar now displays how many Skill Cards a user has in their ‘Completed’ list and how many Skill Cards they have remaining in their Plan
- Implemented a ‘Back’ button on pages where a user is reading an eBook or watching a video to ensure that they always know how to get back to the dashboard
- All PacktLib now redirect to Mapt
- Bug Fix: Completed sections within video courses were not saving upon page refresh
- Bug Fix: Fixed Broken reader layout on iPad
- Bug Fix: Video Titles now reflect the name of the video course
- Bug Fix: Video pages now show the correct number of tokens remaining for a user
- Bug Fix: Fixed broken reader URLs so they now resolve to either the dashboard or the course product page
Thanks for using Mapt. Please send us any questions you have on the release or leave us feedback and suggestions at [email protected].
Thanks,
The Mapt Team