People Love to Learn Coding

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(1) Jonathan Moules, Coding as a Second Language; To help executives do their day jobs better, a course tries to demystify the world of technology for the IT-illiterate. Financial Times, Mar 29, 2012
(London's Decoded, a training business)

Excerpt in the window of print: 'In order to take the fear away you have to understand. I am here to understand what happens inside the box'

(2) Jenna Wortham, Craving Internet Fluency; A surge in studying computer code as an investment in the future. New York Times, Mar 28, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/2 ... ins-a-following.htm
("'People have a genuine desire to understand the world we now live in,' said Zach Sims, one of the founders of Codecademy. 'They don’t just want to use the Web; they want to understand how it works'”)

Excerpt in the window of print: A trend made up of more than just aspiring engineers.

Note:
(a) Parlez-vous français?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlez-vous_français%3F
(English translation: "Do you speak French?")
(b) Python (programming language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
(Appeared in     1991; Designed by     Guido van Rossum [at the Netherlands])
(c)
(i) Oomoo, Rails Is Not A Language. Sept 2, 2008.
http://oomoo.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/rails-is-not-a-language/
("Rails is a “Web Application Framework” that is written in Ruby.  Ruby actually IS a programming language, Rails is a set of  classes/packages designed to do a lot of the tedious work typically involved in writing a web-based application")
(ii) Ruby on Rails
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails
("Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails is not to be confused with Ruby, which is a general-purpose programming language, on which Ruby on Rails runs"/ Original author     David Heinemeier Hansson; Initial release  July 2004)