Unlike some others I hadn't made any specific professional resolutions for 2012. However I noticed that several people on Twitter were talking about something called Code Year. This is a programme run by Codecademy designed to teach people to code using Javascript. A lesson is emailed to you every Monday which you can then work through in your own time. The Twitter discussion can be followed using the #libcodeyear and #codeyear hashtags.
Not wanting to be left out, I signed up and have finished working through my first lesson. I'm proud to have completed it, but I'm not sure how much I actually learned. I worked through the instructions step-by-step with success, but I'm not sure if I could apply it in the real world. Still, this is only the first lesson and I want to reserve judgement for a while.
I wouldn't describe myself as a techie person and I'm not aiming to go down this route in my career. However I think it's important for librarians of any kind to keep up with technology as much as possible and the recent news relating to the idea of teaching secondary school pupils computer science shows how programming has become much more of a general skill than it was. I don't want to be left behind and feel that if school children are going to learn this stuff, the least I can do is try and keep up...
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