<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Brett and Co.<div><br></div><div>It's good that Edustar supports Lynda, but non-government schools (or regular citizens) may also find the council library option useful.<div><br></div><div>Retirement is fine, thanks. I recommend it as an alternative career path.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm busy learning Spanish (for no reason), learning piano (because I'm musically illiterate), and I'm starting to adapt/create slideshows for the 2020 design (but there are no promises that I will continue that masochism.) </div></div><div><br></div><div>And I really must brush up on my CSS theory - since I know next-to-none. </div><div>I learnt web editing before CSS was invented, and have ever since managed to avoid learning it more than superficially.</div><div><br></div><div>Confession: I still format web pages using <table> tags. </div><div>I know - it's shameful - but when I think about the work needed to re-write 492 HTML pages on my main (<a href="http://non-vceit.com">non-vceit.com</a>) 20-year-old website - it always ends up scheduled for "later, maybe".</div><div>The inertia of truckloads of historical HTML can be hard to overcome.</div><div><br></div><div>[And this is where this post suddenly becomes relevant to SD]</div><div><br></div><div>I can now understand better why <a href="https://www.backbase.com/2018/04/19/cobol-and-the-big-tin-bank/">banks still rely on 50-year-old COBOL</a>* code that runs much of their systems: once they update <i>one</i> domino, the other billion dominos need to be updated before they fall. It's all or nothing.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>*<span style="color:rgb(48,47,43)"><font face="monospace, monospace">In 2017, Reuters published the following findings from a piece of research conducted by Celent, Accenture, IBM and others, into the technology supporting major US banking systems:</font></span></div><div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(48,47,43)"><font face="monospace, monospace">43% of banking systems are built on COBOL</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(48,47,43)"><font face="monospace, monospace">80% of in-person transactions use COBOL</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(48,47,43)"><font face="monospace, monospace">95% of ATM swipes rely on COBOL</font></span></li></ul></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 14:21, Groves, Brett G <<a href="mailto:groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au">groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 6 May 2019 12:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>>; Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>>; Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:informatics@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">informatics@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] Lynda.com<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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