Coding For Everybody - Blog

The world of technology is changing so fast.. we need better ways to keep up. In this article I'll highlight a few tips for rapidly learning to code. Hint: it's not what you expect.

If you're researching reasons why you should learn to code, then look no further. There are a lot of reasons to learn to code so I'll try my best to capture the daily benefits I personally receive from being a developer.

This is a story about how I went from a developer who simply liked working with Wagtail (the most popular Python-based content management system), to creating Wagtail’s first large video course and joining the Wagtail Core Team.

The short version of this story is: I started where everybody starts (at the bottom), started a Wagtail tutorial site called LearnWagtail.com and joined the Wagtail Core Team (I still can’t believe that happened, and I’m honoured to have been invited!.

PHP is not dying. In fact, it's still doing very well. So well that 79% of web applications use PHP, and over 1 in 3 websites (over 600,000,000 websites) are using WordPress (PHP). This is an easy language to learn, and the fastest way to grow your business and your freelancing skills, change your career and start earning more income as a web developer.