If you're interested in learning programming, check out Shana L. McDanold's blog post: CodeYear Catalogers.
CodeAcademy is offering an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in getting started with coding: Code Year. Each week they'll be emailing out to anyone that signs up an interactive lesson on coding. Code Academy offers some fantastic interactive courses, so you learn in a supportive environment.
Naturally this has piqued the interest of a number of catalogers that have been interested in learning to code or want to brush up or learn new code languages, myself included. Catalogers work with massive amounts of curated bibliographic data, and being able to manipulate it in new and different ways and in ever increasing amounts is key as we move forward into the bibliographic future and the world of linked data and the semantic web.
Thank you for the heads-up! I just signed up.
Posted by: Steve Casburn | Monday, January 09, 2012 at 08:16 AM
Hi Steve,
You're welcome. I'm looking forward to the first lesson which should arrive in my inbox today (I hope).
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Monday, January 09, 2012 at 10:37 AM