So, as many of you know, I am in the startup scene thus I constantly meet tech entrepreneurs and people who want to be tech entrepreneurs.  I constantly run into people who say "I'm learning how to code".  What? Then, I think to myself  "No, you're not".  Either you are a coder or you are not a coder.  Either you are working on a project or you're not working on a project.  Let me explain what I mean.

I am an old school coder.  Currently I dabble with javascript, PHP & CSS to build websites. I first started programming in BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) in 1982 on my Commodore 64.  The day I got the computer and the day that I opened the BASIC programming guide and wrote a few lines of code, I became a coder.

PERIOD...

Most coders like myself are self taught.  When someone says "I'm learning how write code" this generally means that they are placing the responsibility of becoming a coder on someone else.

In summary, don't "Learn how to code" just code!  Pick a project and just the best coding language to get it done.

What do you think?