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Struggling to come up with a New Year's resolution? Learn to code. Code Year, a site put together by Codecademy, is offering a weekly interactive lesson delivered to email.
The interactive lessons on Codecademy consist of a Javascript console that inserts the instructions in the console itself as you complete each task. Here's the first:
How long is your name? Find out by typing your name in quotes and ending it with .length
For me, that'd be "Ryan".length
Very cool.
Love this quote on Code Year by Fred Wilson:
A young man asked me for advice for 'those who aren't technical.' I said he should try to get technical.