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 Introduction
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-This course was designed to teach modern Spring 4 practices, as defined
-a select few Union Pacfic developers in September of 2017. Though Spring
+This course was designed to teach modern Spring 4 practices as defined by
+a select few Union Pacific developers in September of 2017. Although Spring
 Boot has since taken the world by storm, the core concepts taught by this
 course are still applicable and valuable to most Java Spring developers.