the only catch was, i didn’t have a handy “learn to program!” link to direct her to. there are a lot of great resources out there, but i’ve never found that one single link that i felt really gave the right amount of information to someone starting completely from scratch.

the “completely from scratch” part is really important. most of the intro-to-programming guides i’ve seen are written for an audience of born techies who don’t mind spending a couple hours learning about the lambda calculus. most of the people who’ve asked me how to teach themselves to program are not in that demographic.

Read the full article at http://jrheard.tumblr.com.

I’ve been asked this question before and from now on I’ll be pointing people to this article. Really good advice. Designers it’s time to learn some code!