Any Writing WAHMs Ever Thought of Learning to Write Code?

[BloggingToolsforMe]

Wondering whether any writing WAHMs have ever thought about learning to write code? With sites like CodeAcademy and Coursera, free courses are readily available. Multiple industries are in desperate need of coders and the shortage of coders is only expected to increase. According to this article, it's entirely possible to learn the basics of writing code in as little as 3 months. Any of you currently write code or are thinking of learning?

[AG1976]

That is an interesting idea! I know some HTML code but that's about it.

[BloggingToolsforMe]

Experienced coders might laugh at us, but I would think learning to code would be just like learning another language. In the same way you can learn to speak a second or third language, you could learn to write different code "languages" (Ruby on Rails, jQuery, etc.).

[JillyV]

I have, and I started to learn, but I got lost in the fourth or fifth week.

A good, free program is CodeAcademy.com. They give you weekly exercises to learn JAVA.

[anng]

My son tried to learn Java online and now is in college for computer software engineering. He told me that learning it in the classroom made far more sense, was more accurate, and stuck with him far better than any of the free online classes. If you have the money, there are a number of tech/community colleges that offer those classes at night.

[Ms.Billie]

Thank you so much for that post. I just started learning to code in the last week because I see a lot of those jobs posted and I want to start applying for some of them. I really appreciate the resource info. It's going to be a great help in my learning experience.

[KariC]

Back in the days of mainframe I was learning to code in SAS and SPSS as well as CATI - for social sciences and surveys. What types coding would you suggest learning now? Any ideas? I should have stuck with it I think.

[Ms.Billie]

KariC,

I guess the answer to your question would be it depends on what kind of programming you are interested in doing. I don't think sticking with those coding languages you were learning years ago would serve you much purpose these days.

Nowadays, when most people mention "coding" they are referring to the programming "languages" that are used to build web pages and sites. This involves HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery and several other scripting languages. Building a website from scratch would require a fundamental knowledge of HTML. Depending on how fancy or complex you want the site to be, you would then start adding all of the other stuff to it to make it more interactive and powerful in other ways.

You can visit w3schools.com to get an idea of the various kinds of codes used to build web pages...building on HTML.

[pricetheory]

I am doing Code Year on Codecademy, currently working with JavaScript. Codecademy is fun but probably not so rigorous as an academic course. I plan to round out my knowledge with edX programming courses and some textbooks.

[Jonelle]

I know HTML well enough, and have dabbled with CSS. I definitely plan to learn Javascript, PHP and some SQL. These are great skills to have.