"Mo Money, Mo Coding"
Why coding is a good skill for a beginning digital marketer
The digital marketing world has many opportunities that require a variety of skills. However, for a novice or t-shaped marketer, coding will bring your skills to the next best level. The benefit of knowing how to code can not only give a beginning digital marketer a new skill, but teach them the details of the behind the scenes of the internet. With basic knowledge of HTML or CSS, one can take this familiarity into any job interview and/or upcoming projects and stand out. Codecademy states, “HTML is the beginning of everything you need to know to someday create beautiful web pages!” Especially for detail-oriented digital marketers, coding gets intensely specific and requires a lot of attention. A beginning digital marketer can use their coding skills to eventually become an amazing full stack marketer.
Coding Boot Camps
As coding is becoming an evolving new trend in the digimark world, a blog details the life of an ivy-leaguers and other successful, smart students who thrived (or sadly didn’t) at a coding boot camp. Lauermen detailed, “Code-camp students don’t get a diploma they can hang next to an Ivy League one, but they come away with projects they can show off in interviews, typically apps”. From reading this, I learned, coding boot camps are not for everyone, the assignments appear to be very time-demanding, it’s pricey; yet the accomplishment of completion and likelihood of earning a rewarding job from this experience can be worth the journey. For example, “A 12-week boot camp at Hack Reactor in San Francisco costs $17,780; that’s $1,482 a week, about the same as a week’s worth of tuition at Harvard”. These costs give you a look at some intro factors of coding boot camps. For students, this can be slightly alarming at first, but looking at the big picture, a dedicated, motivated coder will earn that money back in the future. Those costs are adding to a great investment of time where you will in fact get all of your money’s worth. Biggie might say, “Mo money, mo problems”, but who is really complaining about more money (in the long run)? As they become more popular, I would advise intermediate-moderate level coders to master their skills at a boot camp to come an expert.
My experience using Codecademy
Codecademy is a user-friendly, straightforward website. In two hours, my experience started out with a lot of curiosity on this platform. I find myself as pretty “tech savvy” and the interactive sites to learn HTML and CSS were super clear. I like Codecademy’s variety of tools to navigate the website as well as the additional links for more detailed information on specific topics. My experience with HTML was initially very new to me, but once I picked up the constant format of coding I found it got a lot easier. I enjoyed CSS more because I noticed it to be more creative, simply changing the font type and size along with colors was more appealing to me.
The photos below depict some of my results from using HTML and CSS.
