3 ms·
I haven't gone through this yet, but I have a liberal arts degree and did a year of law school before dropping out to work on the internet. I'm competent in HTM
by the_watcher 12y ago
I haven't gone through this yet, but I have a liberal arts degree and did a year of law school before dropping out to work on the internet. I'm competent in HTML/CSS, basically competent with Rails (have built very rudimentary web apps), but working full time in online marketing.
If this is actually an intro to coding for lawyers, it's an intro to programming for those with no technical background whatsoever. Which is really cool (not that those don't exist, but specifically designing this for a career path full of liberal arts types, not just for those with no experience, is interesting). I like that they start with regex and HTML/markdown, since, while they are not what anyone would call software development, they are a simple, quickly useful example of the basic concept of coding - expressing human instructions in a language designed to be understood by a machine. They also are some of the more quickly usable "coding" concepts, HTML & Markdown in the obvious cases, but regex familiarity makes Google Analytics much more powerful.
Looking forward to working through it and seeing what it's like. I sent it on to a few law school friends who had been somewhat interested in tech skills too.