Buying the latest iPhone, and keeping up to date with the latest gossip in the tech industry, is all fine and good. But, if you don't know how to code, you ain't no kind of techie. As the tech industry expands at the current exponential speed, you have the choice to become a consumer of tech or someone who understands it.
'Programming Literacy is going to be an incredibly important skill in the next few years' says Codecademy founder Zach Sims. Startups like Codecademy and the TheNewBoston are making it easy to learn coding online, specially for school children. Intense programs such as bloc aim at making you seasoned programmers from complete noobs within 12 weeks. Nice.
so, if you think coding is only for some math geniuses and geeks, think again. In Estonia, all children in public schools are taught programming. Recently, the mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg signed up for a course on codecademy. :')
Most people will be intimidated by the endless lines of numbers and characters which is difficult to decipher than most of Hieroglyphics. well, it can be a bit difficult in the starting. That is why i suggest, beginners start with a Graphical Programming language called scratch. Scratch is phenomenally good in laying the basics of programming, which i think are the most important for a good programmer.
Here are some facts about coding, and yeah i strongly promote female invasion of the programming field. Please, God!
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"The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else." -Gabe Newell, Founder and President, Valve
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