Breaking the Coding Language Barrier 🚧 🥊

How Jorge learned to code, becoming a better product manager · Try a coding interview question asked at Google · Read more in our newsletter! Newsletter #27 May 31, 2017 Essential news, trends, and stories from Codecademy and the world of code. Breaking the Coding Language Barrier 22 years after proudly announcing to his fellow kindergarteners that he'd someday be a computer programmer, Jorge still hadn't learned to code. As a Director of Digital Marketing at L'Óreal, Jorge regularly worked with developers but struggled to speak their language, an inefficiency that frustrated him. He joined Codecademy to change that. Jorge quickly discovered a new passion in coding. He became a more effective team leader and advanced his career with a switch to a product manager position at Johnson & Johnson's JLABS. READ JORGE'S STORY In Other News Code Challenge: Test Your Scripting Skills Hundreds of users like you test their coding skills each week with our practice interview questions. This time, try a stock trading question asked at Google! Take the challenge and see last week's results. This Month in Tech: Atom Upgrades Atom – the hack-friendly, free text editor favored by many developers – recently announced new Git and GitHub integration, making version control even easier. Read the announcement or try Atom yourself. Long Read: Philosophical Roots of Computing Computer science has transformed the modern world, but the history of these ideas is far older than you may think. Read more. CODE SOMETHING Connect with Us Codecademy 49 W 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe from these alerts.