Recently, I was given the opportunity to do some online training thru a subscription service called Lynda.com.   I had never heard of the site but was granted access to view any of their online training courses for 30 days.

I really wasn’t sure what to expect.  I logged in and was presented with the option to view classes by subject or by name.   Since this was for my job, I looked up ‘Java’ and found a couple of introductory classes, “Foundations of Programming:Fundamentals” and “Foundations of Programming: Object Oriented Design”.   After reviewing the course outline for the fundamentals class, I settled on the Object Oriented Design (OOD) class. Continue reading →