Even though her target audience is librarians that want to learn coding, I thought the points made by Andromeda Yelton in her article “Learning to Code” (May 2015 American Libraries magazine) are perfectly applicable to aspiring coders of any age and... When I started a Code Club in August of 2013, I was a little nervous about my technical skills. Even though I have done a lot of informal programming as a physics student, management consultant, and a hobbyist, I had never built commercial software. I had never... In my last post, I talked about computer programming and why learning to code is important for kids and for the world. Today I want to lay out the case for libraries as the ideal place to learn coding. From their earliest history, libraries have been built on a model... You may have heard about computer programming – it’s the secret language that tells computers what to do, powering the games we play, the apps we use, the software we work with, even our cars and microwave ovens. If it has batteries or a plug, it is likely... 
