All your face are belong to Zuck
As most of you probably know if you've followed me for any length of time, I'm not a fan of Faceborg/Facecrook. I dislike LinkedIn for similar reasons, since it's basically FB for business. The less time I spend on either, the better, as far as I'm concerned. However, both (but particularly LinkedIn) can be useful for looking for jobs and keeping track of various learning resources/tutorials. There are a couple of "free courses with certificates" groups I follow. (I suspect that the first course/tutorial for which I sign up is free and others have an associated price. After all, there's no such thing as a free lunch and I tend to be dubious that any free courses/tutorials are of good quality. It's most likely a successful marketing gimmick.)
Anyway, I saw an advert for a course that teaches both Java and PHP (two languages I already know, but am quite behind on the newer content). Presumably, it also teaches how to integrate/link them to work together (perhaps by getting httpd to proxy requests to Tomcat, since it can do that with mod_jk and mod_proxy enabled). Now, knowing how to do that could be useful, so I headed over to the Website to find out more.
The Website in question, www.onlinetutorials.org/, has a whole plethora of tutorial categories and subcategories. It covers everything from Accounting & Finance through Self Improvement to Software/Web Development (including game development). Another cool feature is that it has a "Submit Tutorial" section. If I ever get to the point of putting a Complete Computer Science course together (beyond just the subject/topic outline), I'll probably post it there, as well as on Udemy (assuming I'm able to). Having looked a little closer, it appears to be a feeder site to Udemy, with coupon/discount codes.
Although I was initially looking at the site for the Software/Web development content, I think I'm going to start with Motivation/Procrastination (if there's anything that catches my eye), because that's currently an area in which I'm struggling and I need help (and have for a long time). Pills alone aren't going to do it for me. I'm now off to do that, since there's no time like the present and if I don't strike while the iron is hot when I have an inspiring idea, I most likely never will (at least not without a great amount of effort and forcing myself, even for things I want to do)
There's also https://onlinecourses.degree, but registration is disabled (for some unknown/unspecified reason) at the time of writing.
Carpe diem, folks!
Thumbnail: Screenshot of the Online Tutorials Website, taken 2023/10/09 @ 11:10 GMT+02:00
