What we did
August 2021 : Free Courses and Development Tools
This month we took a look at a site sponsored by the Dept of Industry providing free online courses in most computer technologies. It’s called Skill Finder
and has courses from beginner to advanced provided by some of the most well-known brands like Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, LinkedIn Learning and Udmey
Here are some of the courses we looked at
Web Design with HTML & CSS | Udemy Free Online Course (skillfinder.com.au)
HTML Essential Training | LinkedIn Free Online Course (skillfinder.com.au)
The instructor for this course is Jen Simmons one of the most renowned educators of web development. She has a whole YouTube channel of free tutorials.
Here is one of the more advanced courses run by the Australian firm Atlassian
It’s about Git or version control which is used in Bitbucket and GitHub to allow developers to collaborate in software development. We looked at Git in February 2020.
I also found an Instagram post on free courses by Google.
We then moved on to look at a beta site offering loads of tools to help you develop your web site. Its called Toolb.dev.
The tools include CSS, HTML Javascript and many more.
Here we looked at a border tool
You play with the sliders
Then you click on the code and you can copy it or download it. You can even generate a QR code.
Speaking of QR codes, under text tools you can create your own QR Code
Finally, we looked at an Instagram post on how the use Google search Here’s the link.
Steve South
Web Design leader