[Year 12 SofDev] Lynda.com

[Mark]

Hi Brett and Co.

It's good that Edustar supports Lynda, but non-government schools (or
regular citizens) may also find the council library option useful.

Retirement is fine, thanks. I recommend it as an alternative career path.

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.)

And I really must brush up on my CSS theory - since I know next-to-none.
I learnt web editing before CSS was invented, and have ever since managed
to avoid learning it more than superficially.

Confession: I still format web pages using <table> tags.
I know - it's shameful - but when I think about the work needed to re-write
492 HTML pages on my main (non-vceit.com) 20-year-old website - it always
ends up scheduled for "later, maybe".
The inertia of truckloads of historical HTML can be hard to overcome.

[And this is where this post suddenly becomes relevant to SD]

I can now understand better why banks still rely on 50-year-old COBOL
<https://www.backbase.com/2018/04/19/cobol-and-the-big-tin-bank/>* code
that runs much of their systems: once they update *one* domino, the other
billion dominos need to be updated before they fall. It's all or nothing.

Regards,
Mark

*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:

   - 43% of banking systems are built on COBOL
   - 80% of in-person transactions use COBOL
   - 95% of ATM swipes rely on COBOL


On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 14:21, Groves, Brett G <
groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
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> All Vic Gov schools have access to Lynda free currently as well. Students
> have to be authorised in Edustar though.
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> How goes retirement?
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> Kind regards,
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> Brett Groves
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> *om:* sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> *On Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Monday, 6 May 2019 12:49 PM
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> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] Lynda.com
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> Hi all.
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> I just discovered today that one can get free online access to Lynda.com
> tutorials via the local council libraries - Kingston, in my case.
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> I'm not sure whether other councils have similar offerings, but it's worth
> a try. I've learnt heaps via Lynda courses over the years.
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> P.s. My library also has free online access to stacks of mags like
> *Choice* and *Australian Personal Computer* (which I've been reading
> since 1981)
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> HTH
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> Mark
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