2012 Resolution: Start Coding Again

[Andy Nguyen]

Came across this post from Fred Wilson's blog. When you see business people such as Fred Wilson starts to get back to coding himself, you know you are not going to find a job if you don't know how to code.

Code Academy makes it very easy to commit so there is no excuse now. Give them your email address and they mail email you an interactive lesson once a week.
http://codeyear.com/

 

[Daniel Duffy]

49,215 people have decided to learn to code in 2012.

Andy,
That's a lot :D

 

[Andy Nguyen]

And it is now 57,585 people. When i posted this morning, it was around 30K something.
Glad to see this pick up steam.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

These comments are too funny not to share
"If you want to invest two years in something that will help you, you would do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA" Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
"A young man asked me for advice for 'those who aren't technical.' I said he should try to get technical" - Fred Wilson, Partner, Union Square Ventures

 

[Zeuge]

How useful is Ruby? I saw one of my friends working on one of the lessons on Code Academy and the material seems super-basic.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Code Academy isn't exactly the type that will train you to code for Wall Street. They mostly gear toward the app/web/tech entrepreneur types who got big idea and want to make a prototype out of it. Their main draw is the list of very prominent mentors that you can work with for idea, support, advice.

Think of it as a support group for the next Facebook/Groupon/Google types

 

[ExSan]

as for Jan 06 - 2012 // http://codeyear.com/

189,120 people have decided to learn to code in 2012.​

 

[alain]

as for Jan 06 - 2012 // http://codeyear.com/

189,120 people have decided to learn to code in 2012.​

learn to code JavaScript... that's a good start but I think that is going to be a disaster.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

learn to code JavaScript... that's a good start but I think that is going to be a disaster.

Where does it say it will teach JavaScript?

 

[Mike_B]

Where does it say it will teach JavaScript?

See http://www.codecademy.com/

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The Javascript lessons are online but they will also teach Ruby and Python as well http://labs.codecademy.com/
There is no indication which language will be taught via codeyear.com

 

[alain]

The Javascript lessons are online but they will also teach Ruby and Python as well http://labs.codecademy.com/
There is no indication which language will be taught via codeyear.com

This is good. I didn't see it before. I signed to check it out but I was discouraged after I saw only JavaScript.

 

[Mike_B]

The Javascript lessons are online but they will also teach Ruby and Python as well http://labs.codecademy.com/
There is no indication which language will be taught via codeyear.com

Good point. I was relying on the fact that the only tutorials currently available are for JavaScript.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I wouldn't mind learning a few tricks in JavaScript as a lot of interactive features on Quantnet are powered by jQuery.

 

[Mike_B]

I signed up for the e-mails because it sounded like an interesting concept. I am not sure how actively I'll participate as I am new to programming (only basic VBA for Excel knowledge) and will be taking a Java class this spring and hopefully the Quantnet C++ course in the near future. I think trying to learn another language might be biting off a bit more than I can chew at this point.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

What about F# and functional programming?

 

[MRoss]

Signed up

 

[Jayanthan]

I've signed up as well. Wouldn't it be nice, If they teach C++. or what if we create a group in quantnet and study together (c++). I would love to have test drive. What do you guys think?

 

[MRoss]

I'm more excited for Python and Ruby

 

[Barny]

Does the world really need more HTML, Javascript and CSS programmers? I don't think so.

We need more people who understand numerical methods, algorithms and FORTRAN/C/C++.