This is true. Nothing gets my attention more than non-technical people that learned how to code, and even if it's not the world's most brilliant code, it demons

This is true. Nothing gets my attention more than non-technical people that learned how to code, and even if it's not the world's most brilliant code, it demonstrates umph and a willingness to do what they can for their business and for understanding. Having learned how to code will also give you perspective, even if you're not going to be doing it later in the company. When you've broken your back coding, you'll realize that no feature is ever 'trivial', among other things. It'll make you get along and understand your technical team a lot better.