Can You Learn To Code In One Day? We Sent A Non-Nerd To Find Out
22.05.12
If so many people’s jobs are touched by the Internet and digital technology, then how come so few of us have even a basic understanding of how things work? This is the fundamental question behind a new course in the U.K. called Decoded , which promises to teach people how to code in one day.
There are plenty of courses and a seemingly endless series of conferences, workshops, and events that discuss “being more digital" and “integration” and which encourage a change of mindset. But really, if you are in the creative or communications industries on any level and you haven’t already addressed this, then what have you been doing for the last 5-10 years? Decoded’s aim is to go beyond changing mindsets and actually teach non-developers how to code.
Decoded was founded this year by a team of four that includes the influential London-based ad creative Steve Henry, Kathryn Parsons and Richard Peters, both former planners at Ogilvy Group and the founders of The Scarlett Mark, a hard-to-pigeonhole agency that has focused on content creation, product development and innovation and Alisdair Blackwell, an award winning web-designer and developer, who is also a passionate educator.
Source: Fast Company