Coding enthusiasts rejoice! National Coding Week just happened in the UK. Electronics Weekly takes  a look at the event a recent article titled “National Coding Week aims at adult learners.”

According to the author of the article, “Taking place over September 21-27, there will be free-to-attend training sessions across the UK, where people will be taught the basics of coding alongside other beginners with little or no previous knowledge. There is a clickable event map on the National Coding Week website. ‘The key aims of National Coding Week are to encourage adults of any age to learn an element of computer coding, to encourage digital experts to share their skills, and to collaborate, share, learn and have fun,’ said event co-founder Richard Rolfe. ‘If I can learn to code at age 51 then anyone can.’ According to organisers, 52% of adults in the UK said they would feel ‘extremely or very daunted’ at the prospect of learning to code, while 41.3% believed that the older they are, the harder it is to pick up a skill like coding.”

The Bend Bulletin explores the rise in adult coding camps in a recent article titled “Adult coding camps boom as employers seek tech-savvy workers.” Kathleen Gallagher of the Bend Bulletin writes, “With eight employer requests for every student currently accepted into its computer coding classes, Milwaukee-based DevCodeCamp is expanding the amount of space it leases and the number of students it will train. It’s all part of an educational coding surge that is happening in many other cities, as well. This school — the first of its sort in Wisconsin — is taking an additional 2,500 square feet in Ward4 Milwaukee, a co-working space just south of downtown Milwaukee, said founder Jim Brent. The expansion will nearly double the space it occupies. DevCodeCamp, which since June has been running intensive computer coding boot camps here that last for months, rather than years, is attracting pilots, teachers, sales reps and others from a range of occupations, Brent said. All of them are seeking the same thing: good-paying technology jobs with employers who are begging for this type of talent.”

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