I think a lot of people might wonder why I want to learn to program. It seems like a big jump from working at being an author to working at learning to code, but I don’t think they are as far apart as people think. Learning to program is also something that is not far removed from things I have been doing for years, from things I have been interested in since I was a kid.
I’ve been building and maintaining websites since I was a teenager, doing some basic HTML here and there, CMS systems like WordPress helped remove me from the ‘code’ side of things but there is still some work to do in that space when you own a website (or two or three). I was just doing copy paste code though, I want to actually learn how to do these things on my own. Continue reading →