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Codecademy | A Redneck Learns to Code | Free Course

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Codecademy Screen Shot

Here in the Silicon Valley it seems that everyone works in technology, including me.  Though, while I work in technology, the only programming language that I know is HTML, which is pretty basic.  As someone who employs developers, I’ve always thought it would be a great idea to learn how to program in Javascript and PHP.

I recently found Codecademy which allows me to learn both Javascript and PHP for free, online, on my own time.  Just yesterday I registered for the free course and have almost completed my first full lesson of Javascript.  I chose Javascript because it’s what a lot of mobile developers are using and a lot of mobile app building platforms allow you to build apps in Javascript.  With Codecademy, you can also learn JQuery, Ruby and Python.

While I don’t plan to become a full time developer, I would like to learn enough so that I can code up prototypes of the ideas that I come up with and to understand some of the code that my developers write so that I can help in troubleshooting in the off chance I have to.

So far the learning process has been great!  I have only gotten stuck once and the tutorial helped me through it with ease.

Some of the other places that you can learn to code online for free are Code.org and Khan Academy.  If you’ve ever had a desire to code, now’s your chance!