There has been some backlash from the whole "learning to code" meme.
I think, for me at least, learning some coding has increased my skills in other areas. That's probably because of what I took into it. I never thought that learning these skills would radically alter my career path, I just wanted to be able to look at a block of javascript or html and figure out what the heck was going on. Sitting at a computer eight hours a day writing code is not something that I would ever want to do!
I do realize that a lot of people may have jumped in, thinking that the payoff was going to be a job making 80k, that's a recipe for failure, and frustration.
I'm enjoying CodeAcademy more, now that the topics have moved on to HTML/CSS, something that I'm a little more familiar with. I was really starting to feel out of my element with the more advanced javascript.
I haven't messed around much with webdesign for a few years, and it's really cool to see how far the technology has come. I'm even working on a website for my business, but if that business were to ever really take off, I would hand the webdesign over to someone in a HEARTBEAT. It's important to know what your real strengths are.
Learning some new things has helped me to look at problems differently, and I don't see how that can be a bad thing.
