The Learn to Code Movement
Think back to the era between roughly 1975-2000, a time when many of the most revered and celebrated software developers of today started their careers by teaching themselves to code. Wealthy companies hired these enthusiastic young programmers on nothing more than the word of a colleague. In the earliest days of the profession, everyone was self-taught and learned the details on-the-job.
So what was the Learn to Code movement of the late 2000s even about if everyone was self-taught? It signified that people were no longer teaching themselves computer programming, because the web had changed how people used computers entirely. Nonetheless, you need a computer and broadband to even access the web. Not everyone got to participate in this movement.
In this article, I'll discuss:
So what was the Learn to Code movement of the late 2000s even about if everyone was self-taught? It signified that people were no longer teaching themselves computer programming, because the web had changed how people used computers entirely. Nonetheless, you need a computer and broadband to even access the web. Not everyone got to participate in this movement.
In this article, I'll discuss:
- The promise of the "Learn to Code" movement
- The participants who benefited
- The impact on the future of software careers
