President Obama wants everyone to learn to code. These are the people who are actually doing it.
Source: www.wired.com
Interesting study about who goes to these camps. I’ve thought about it, although I don’t have $10K sitting in my pocket itching to be spent. I sometimes wonder if understanding coding is the key to the "better" jobs in tech comm. API writing definitely requires it, and that seems to be a hot field right now. I know HTML on an intermediate level and CSS on a basic level, and that’s gotten me through fairly well so far. But I’ve often questioned whether learning Javascript or Jquery, Objective C, or Ruby on Rails is something that I need to learn. Half the time, I swear that job I see are for programmers who can write more than writers who can program, if you know what I mean.
I always advocate for constantly learning to better your chances for opportunity (and nothing wrong with enhancing your brain). Not sure if this is the way to go for everyone.
What do you think?
–techcommgeekmom
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