Awesome Resource: Free Code Camp

I learned about Free Code Camp through jorge at /learnprogramming, and started taking some courses through it. I really love it. The entire site is run by volunteers, and the idea is for you to learn well enough that you could build a program using the language of your choice. They have certification courses within the camp, and you pass them by actually building a program for a non-profit. Also, you can pledge to a charity and that's part of your commitment to learning to code. Which is just awesome motivation. I do not have a technical background (I did technically graduate from a technical college, but it was for barbering), but that ain't stopping me!

I actually think it's important for everyone to learn some code. When you know a language enough to build something with it, then you also fully realize that everything online is code. Which means every site we use and every program we run started with people staring at a blank page, wishing to express an idea. Tis is beautiful, because you see that computer code shares a space with poetry. At the same time, code just as easily shares a space with propaganda. My hope is that learning these languages will help me distinguish between the two in the programs I run every day.