This year nearly 200,000 people across America have committed to learn computer programming through the Code Year Project. Sponsored by Code Academy, with lots of tech companies joining the project, Code Year seeks to help people learn the basics of computer coding so they can design their own web pages. Even New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is along for the ride.
The project is simple. Each week participants receive a lesson via email that teaches them a new aspect of programming.Users receives badges for their accomplishments and can follow the progress of their friends. The lessons are made for beginners and are interactive so users can see their results immediately.
Why should you learn this stuff? Because you can learn to make web pages, games, and cool apps. Also, several members of Team Honey Badger have already signed up, so you will have lots of fun people to do it with. Even if you never program yourself, you can learn a lot more about how computers and the internet works, and Dogs of War will no longer be able to make fun of you for not knowing these things.
Anyway, please join us. You can sign up here. For more information about the project, go here. You can also follow the Code Academy on Twitter for updates on the project.
I also created a Twitter list of accounts that are useful for the programmer in training.
