Please don't learn to code
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It'll just ruin the lives of quite a few people who'll, again, invest time, money, and come down crashing down to earth a little while later.
And, I agree with the author. Most of the time spent 'coding' (god I hate that word, I feel like my job is transcoding ASCII to EBCDIC by hand when I read that) should be spent sitting down looking at the ceiling instead.