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More reasons to get off your butt and learn to code

Earlier this year Code Academy launched their free online classes to help anyone learn to code. Learning to code is invaluable for several reasons. Even for the average person, knowing basic coding is becoming essential.

Just think about it. Everything is online now, the world is being digitized. If you don’t know how this new digital world works behind the scenes, even the basics, you are going to be left behind. Or if you desire to make a career out of coding, you have that option as well. All-in-all, learning to code is as important as it ever has been, and will only continue to become more important as time goes on.

For those that are visually challenged and need even more reason to learn to code, check out this fancy infographic below from Online College with some appealing tidbits of information about coding, such as this great example of why you should learn to code: the average programmer earns $79k a year plus the software developer job growth rate is through the roof.