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Following on from my blog post outlining an A-Z of Digital, here is “P is for Programming”.
Programming or Coding is something that everyone should learn (How you can begin to code), even if its just to produce a simple programme to print “Hello World” to the screen.
Why? Because programming/coding is becoming an integral part of businesses moving towards its Digital Transformation. Having an understanding of code or being able to write it, helps understand whats behind as code services, automation and connecting systems together with API’s. The manual tasks of today should be the Automated tasks of tomorrow.
The phrase “Learning to code” may strike fear and thoughts of hundreds of lines text and numbers, but it doesn’t need to. The ability to learn to code has grown with the availability of free resources, books and videos available on the internet that takes you through from a beginner upwards.
Choosing a language will depend on what you are looking to achieve, but if your starting out try Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) as its based around blocks to create a programme. Alternatively there are lots of languages to try and below is a list of the current top 10 languages compiled by RedMonk.
Top 10 Programming Languages from RedMonk (June 2017)
1 JavaScript
2 Java
3 Python
4 PHP
5 C#
6 C++
7 CSS
8 Ruby
9 C
10 Objective-CSource: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/06/08/language-rankings-6-17/
What language will you try?
Further Reading:
- A-Z of Digital – A is for Automation
- How you can begin to Code
- Taking your coding to the next level – Scratch to Python
- Programming Nostalgia – Back to the 1980’s
- Learning to Program
Max Hemingway 
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