If you’re a designer (or business person, or just a human) and you’re thinking about learning code…pay a LOT of attention to this sentence from the article:
> “I code because I love to code.”
In my experience, that’s all that matters. If you can try a coding tutorial and find the _process_ fun, if a little irritating, you can learn to code.
Too many people suffer for a long time trying to code because “it’s cool” even though they hate it. There’s nothing better about code than any other skill, and a lot of people really struggle with it. You can probably get a pretty good sense of if coding is a good fit for you in ~4 hours on a couple udemy tutorials.
I was talking to a friend about career options the other day and said they could always learn to code. Their face screwed up. They didn’t want to do something boring like that, they said.
In that moment I realized that some people perceive coding to be a boring activity. They were surprised when I said I often do it in my spare time for fun.
> “I code because I love to code.”
In my experience, that’s all that matters. If you can try a coding tutorial and find the _process_ fun, if a little irritating, you can learn to code.
Too many people suffer for a long time trying to code because “it’s cool” even though they hate it. There’s nothing better about code than any other skill, and a lot of people really struggle with it. You can probably get a pretty good sense of if coding is a good fit for you in ~4 hours on a couple udemy tutorials.