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Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day

Posted by timothy on from the which-day-is-the-question dept.

whyloginwhysubscribe writes "The usually excellent BBC 'Click' programme has an article on 'Why computer code is the new language to learn' — which features a company in London who offer courses on learning to code in a day. The BBC clip has an interesting interview with a marketing director who, it seems to me, is going to go back and tell his programmers to speed up because otherwise he could do it himself! Decoded.co's testimonials page is particularly funny: 'I really feel like I could talk credibly to a coder, given we can now actually speak the same language.'"

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  1. Everyone starts somewhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Per my subject-line above, that's how it goes. Not a single person here (who actually codes that is) didn't have "small beginnings", not a single one.

    * So before anyone here *tries* to play "the 'God of Coding'" (of which there is none, only better more focused & dedicated workers familiar with the data being manipulated)? Don't... there is NO such person/animal!

    (It's easy to get arrogant about, especially if you've had years-to-decades under your belt doing it on many levels, but there's ALWAYS more to learn/something new - mainly because of all the change & language fads etc./et al!)

    APK

    P.S.=> This is a good thing, in a way, that more folks display interest in it... Personally, were I to state which language is the "BEST" to learn, overall?

    Well - I'd recommend SQL more than anything actually!

    (Since its has myriad uses as a "sub-language" beneath other languages/apps, especially in business (& it's NOT hard to learn, not really, w/ the 4 basic commands of INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, & SELECT (most used of all's the latter)))...

    ... apk