This week’s “build a better world” database highlight is Lynda.com [1]. Lynda.com’s comprehensive videos, exercise files, and transcripts will help you develop a variety of skills.  

Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. - from the vendor

Lynda.com is the place to go for instructional videos on hundreds of topics. While it is most known for technical and software courses, Lynda.com also offers videos on marketing, music, and leadership. Give it a try today!

This week’s free site is Codeacademy [2]. Codeacademy teaches coding through interactive lessons. While there are a ton of free learn-to-code sites out there, Codeacademy has a reputation for being fun and effective.

Action Steps

• Start a Lynda.com video, list the video topic in the comments along with what you hope to accomplish by the end of the lesson
• Brainstorm ideas for incorporating code building into your programming schedule. What other sites/games have you found to help kids or adults learn to code?

Free stickers (stickers!) for the first 10 respondents.