NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Learn To Code In 2012

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 7, 2012 @07:36AM from the give-himself-a-fighting-chance dept.

theodp writes "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his intention to take a coding class in 2012 via Twitter ('My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012! Join me.'). So, is this just a PR coup for Codeacademy, or could EE grad (Johns Hopkins, '64) Bloomberg — who parlayed the $10 million severance he received after being fired as head of systems development at Solomon Brothers into his $19.5 billion Bloomberg L.P. fortune — actually not know how to program? Seems unlikely, but if so, perhaps Bloomberg should just apply to be a Bloomberg Summer 2012 Software Development intern — smart money says he'd get the gig!"

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Cobol by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-07 07:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe he wants to know how to code in something besides cobol and fortran.
My first program by jacobsm · 2012-01-07 08:50 · Score: 5, Funny

10 Print "I've got lots of money"
20 goto 10
30 end