A Year Of Coding; The Portable Productive Office by Ryan Johnson 317 views

May I confide in you for a moment? There was a time when I struggled to do something as simple as play a video on the background of a website. I remember struggling for days to do such a (now) rudimentary task that would presently take me under 5 minutes. Ah, the joys of progression.

Coding is a journey like mastering a musical instrument, foreign language, or physical sport. Progress comes in small increments - from confidence riding the bunny slopes of HTML & CSS to building up the gravitas to juggle Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, and Swift apps in a single day.

To anyone looking to craft the future, here are the most helpful resources to get started:

Codeacademy - a free, easily accessible resource with exercises in many popular coding language. A tremendous wealth of information where many developers solidify the basics.

Pluralsight - well-updated archive of video tutorials on all subjects of programming. Free 10 day trial then $30/month.

E-Books - as a Rails developer, the Michael Hartl tutorial is known as the holy grail and for good reason. Go step by step as he develops a Twitter clone. Also indispensible but less commonly cited is Learn Rails the Fast & Easy Way.

Mackenzie Child - self-taught designer-turned-developer Mackenzie goes step-by-step through wireframing all the way to coding and pushing a complete Podcast network. Incredible free content.

To anyone on the fence about taking the plunge into the ocean of coding, consider the following. Technology will disrupt every industry - just taking automated driving vehicles in the next five years - millions of Uber/taxi/truck driver will find their jobs obsolete practically overnight.

The future can be succictly summed up:

A Year Of Coding; The Portable Productive Office by Ryan Johnson 317 views

Learn to program, or be programmed by those who do.