1. mashable: Instructional computer programming startup Codecademy launched a successful New Year’s Day campaign called #codeyear to get people to sign up for their free online courses. In it, they encouraged people to share their “New Year’s Resolution” to learn to code - and signed up close to 100,000 people in just two days. Now the company may have snagged it’s most high profile pupil: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He tweeted his resolution this afternoon to his 200,000+ Twitter followers. Why are you learning to code this year? #nerdalert trying this for fun

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    Instructional computer programming startup Codecademy launched a successful New Year’s Day campaign called #codeyear to get people to sign up for their free online courses. In it, they encouraged people to share their “New Year’s Resolution” to learn to code - and signed up close to 100,000 people in just two days.

    Now the company may have snagged it’s most high profile pupil: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He tweeted his resolution this afternoon to his 200,000+ Twitter followers.

    Why are you learning to code this year?

    #nerdalert trying this for fun

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    4. techgeekj answered: I aspire to learn all types of coding lamguage. I find the “art” of coding to be very interesting and very engulfing.
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    7. ryanb answered: for my startup
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      #nerdalert trying
    9. kallibeth answered: code is the language of the 21st century, playa
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