Programming is more than for just techies – knowing even a little bit of scripting can be really useful in both your personal and professional lives. You can learn to automate the mundane every day tasks at home, or become a streamlined worker at your job by making the long complex tasks simpler and easier to understand.
However it can be daunting to learn a language, especially if you have no previous experience, which is where Codeacademy comes in – as the co-founder, Mike Bloomberg, recently said in an interview:
As the cofounder of Codecademy, which teaches people how to code online, I spend my days working with our hundreds of thousands of users to get them to learn to code in an effective manner online. In 2012, we launched a new program, Code Year, to get more people to realize the importance of programming.
I’ve already signed up for Code Year and my goal is to be able code by mid-2012. Starting with Javascript [the language taught on Code Year) seems like a good idea too, as I spend a large portion of my life on the net.
Programming is one of the few disciplines taught today in schools that virtually guarantees students a job upon graduation. Beyond that, it’s one of the few fields where students are creators–they’re building games, websites, applications, and more.
So will you be making 2012 the year of code? Head over to Code Year and get started now.
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