My generation(s)/age group late 20s/early 30s — I'm a Millennial in the West and a Gen X when I'm from — was the very first to go through school and be taught some basic coding or, sadly, the very last to go through school and be taught absolutely no coding.
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Some/most(?) of us have been exposed to some Pascal, some VB, something! Maybe a little Java, maybe some C++, Javascript... At school in Cyprus we were taught a surprising amount, since my specific lyceum class had opted in to Informatics. So I'm very lucky.
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I'm also extra lucky because I did an undergraduate degree in CompSci — and that only makes me more certain of my advice: please learn to code. I implore you all, all my peers, to learn how to code, even if just a little.




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I promise you it will only open doors, in your mind, imagination, doors to better job opportunities, & on & on.
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Really intelligent and kind people who have never been given this advice have been affected seriously, professionally, personally, by their lack of programming skills. And there is no reason for this — they just never had somebody say: "learn to code — trust me just do it."
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So here I am saying: trust me — just learn how to code. Open up a tab in your browser and go through the basic http://codecademy.com stuff. Yes, it's really important.
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In fact being able to code is what saved my life (100% literally) at least twice. It's why I still have a job in science, it's also how a landed a PhD place.
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So yeah, just do it. Even if you get stuck on what a for loop is or have trouble understanding logic tables or object orientation. It is worth it. Learn how to code.




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Sorry to all those who have missed out on careers because your undergraduate courses didn't bother to stress coding.
I am trying to change this for the next generations, and you can fix this for yourself too. It's never too late.





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I am so proud of you. You got this. Also everybody EVERYBODY writes ugly AF code all the time, esp. when they are learning new stuff. 

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