# [2018.11.17] IBM Badges

IBM has a good collection of different online courses at 
https://cognitiveclass.ai. I registered there two years ago when it 
was called Big Data University:) So the hype changes: three years 
ago everybody wanted just any kind of big data, and now everybody 
wants some artificial intelligence. And they issue electronic badges 
for completing several courses in a row which can be shared on 
LinkedIn, the only social network I now belong to. The last badge I 
received more than two years ago, on the 4th of November 2016, was 
for the course on Scala Programming for Data Science. I tried to use 
Scala for DS but unsuccessfully. But the badge remained. And at 
yesterday's night, I got another one after completing for a course 
'Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction'. I like Docker very 
much, and I didn't know some details which can be found in the 
course.