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Should the Boss Learn to Code?
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Learning to write code has become something of a trendy thing to do. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he intends to learn code this year. Estonia has recently announced a scheme with the aim of getting every 6-year-old in the Baltic state to learn programming skills.
The demand has spawned a number of start-ups offering coding lessons. Zach Simms, the 22-year-old co-founder of online education site Codecademy, said in an earlier interview with The Wall Street Journal that not everyone has to learn to code, but everybody "needs to learn the notions of algorithms, realizing what you can use code for."
But do they? Do non-technical entrepreneurs of digital start-ups need to learn code? Is understanding the intricacies of Django more important than learning how to sell your product or market your services? Among European entrepreneurs we polled, the answer is mixed.
From The Wall Street Journal
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