SAN FRANCISCO – Learning how to code has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reputation.
On the one hand, it promises to be a path to job stability, given that by 2020 some one million computer science jobs will go unfilled in the U.S., according to the Department of Labor.
On the other, “the mythology seems to imply that you really have to be a genius in order to code,” says Danielle Feinberg, director of photography at Pixar. “That’s why it’s important to create ways to just get people to just try it, because that’s when you might get pulled in.”
