I am not a programmer. I just play one in my internship. Sure, sure, I have been able to write HTML since 2.0 was new and Notepad was the only place to write it. I picked up some CSS here and there along the way. Real web development programming languages? I’m lost like an old Commodore 64 in an underwater ghost town. So things were looking grim, needing to play Web Developer blind. I talked some MIS pals and the random network admin demi-god, and I emailed a professor who moved away years ago. Only understanding every tenth word I heard, I felt lost and alone.
I had to find some solution, some way to turn my non-programming self into a web development noob. Enter good ol’ Lynda.com. Unlike other online tutorials, here I found not only learning videos with follow along flash screen shots, but also an organized plan to follow. Before subscribing I watched some of the free videos, and meandered through their library.
In Lynda’s library I found tutorials for everything from MS Word to Perl. At $25 a month, this is a great deal. Currently marching my way through what I must learn to complete my internship and already I am anxious to march through more. Given enough time in Lynda and dinking with what I learn there… maybe I could become a web developer after all.
The best part about Lynda? College? $5,000 for 16 weeks. Lynda.com? $25 for a month. Unlike my last Monday, Wednesday, Friday class in sub-aquatic fiber manipulation, I’m learning specific and applicable job skills on Lynda. No, no, I do not suggest we all abandon college and sit at home on our futon’s and get our learn on. But I’ll tell you what… Lynda.com as a supplement to college? Unbeatable.
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