"Learning how to program for its own sake is like learning French purely on the off chance that you one day find yourself in Paris". And I don't think, it's ba

"Learning how to program for its own sake is like learning French purely on the off chance that you one day find yourself in Paris". And I don't think, it's bad or wrong in fact - you may learn anything you want just as a hobby - just for exercising your brain. And it will be great if a business guy, for example, will understand a programmer way of thinking. I can tell my story - guess, it'll be somehow interesting. I was a "business guy" not long ago and I think, I am still. But when I started to work on Travelatus with my partner, I decided to learn to code - just to be helpful someday and to understand the product better. It was in November 2011 when I started to learn Django and Python, then in 2012 I started Codeacademy courses. It was interesting to find out that here (in Moscow) there was no strong Django community that could be useful for developers networking. So, as business guy trying to learn I cooperated with 2 partners to build such community. That's how "business thinking" helped me and other developers, I guess.