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Becoming a Microsoft Student Ambassador presents the possibility to be part of technology, innovation, and leadership among students. Being an energetic person who would love to impact change, I feel this is a role where I would be able to harness my talents, grow personally, and assist in developing technology within my university and society. Microsoft is a brand that has always fascinated me because of its vision to change the world using technology. As a Student Ambassador, I would be more than happy to act as the link between Microsoft's tools and the students I am surrounded by. Whether it is presenting students with the new innovations in software, promoting Microsoft 365 usage, or organizing cloud computing and coding workshops, I wish to encourage my colleagues to use Microsoft's powerful tools to their fullest potential. Also, I have a proactive attitude and great communication skills that are useful for this position. My experience in planning campus events, heading ...

Git and GitHub are basic tools for modern software development, providing a means of implementing version control and collaboration and facilitating the whole development process. It's a distributed version control system that lets developers see and manage the changes that happened in the codebase over time. It tracks all changes made to the codebase, allowing developers to roll back previous versions, work more efficiently, and record their project history. This works locally on a developer's computer, allowing the person to work separately and synchronize their changes with a central repository afterward.  On the other hand, GitHub is a cloud service hosting Git repositories, where developers can collaborate on their work more easily and share code with others. It offers a social layer over Git where developers can create public or private repositories, manage issues, process pull requests, and work with other people on open-source projects. Besides this, it also provides wi...

Machine learning (ML) is rapidly advancing technology that makes recommendation engines or driverless cars possible. Developing machine learning models is one complex procedure for deriving solid predictions from raw information. This involved several important steps along the way. The first step is data collection. It is important that the data is relevant and of good quality, as it is going to train any ML model. This data can be harvested from databases, sensors, or APIs. Outliers or irrelevant data should be cleaned and preprocessed. This may include normalization, encoding categorical variables, and splitting the data into training and testing sets.  After the data has been properly prepared, the next phase is selecting an appropriate machine learning algorithm. The selected algorithm is dependent on the type of problem—that is, classification, regression, clustering, or recommendation. Some of the most commonly used algorithms include decision trees, linear regression, suppor...

Visual Studio Code is a popular open-source code editor developed by Microsoft that has excellent flexibility is easy to learn and use, and offers numerous features. While it has inarguably taken the lead among professional developers, it has also been given considerable recognition in the education space by revolutionizing the learning and teaching processes of programming. In that case, the free VS Code presents an opportunity through accessibility, simplicity, and universality of high-cost customizing its features, which is an extremely valuable choice for learning programming in different kinds of institutions of learning.  One of the key sweeter benefits of using VS Code in education is the lightweight nature of the application. Unlike the more hefty IDEs, VS Code installs quickly, runs fast across a plethora of devices, and supports many programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, C++, and Java. It enables students to write, run, and debug code in a single environment, ...

Microsoft Teams has now cemented its position among the essential communication and collaboration tools of today. With remote and hybrid workspaces becoming the most sought-after ways to work, organizations are trying to garner effective and stable communication platforms. Teams calling and meetings keep people and organizations connected and provide seamless collaboration anytime, anywhere. Teams meetings, as the core of the platform, provide a very simple yet efficient way of conducting virtual meetings. Microsoft Teams allows meetings, which can range from small-scale team check-ins to large-scale corporate conferences, through video, audio, and screen sharing, adding to real-time collaboration.  An added advantage during the meeting is the possibility for real-time collaborative document sharing and editing that is inherently knitted in with Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Teams meetings league an entire bouquet of experience features: breakout r...