In this past year there have been a few great websites created to learn to write code. None have been as good as Codeacademy. While it only get’s you started in programming logic it does it in a simple way that just about anybody can understand. And in order to get even more people excited about and learning about writing code they have started Code Year.

The premise is simple. Every week a new programming lesson will be e-mailed to you and you have a week to complete it. By the end of the year you should have enough general programming knowledge to be able to pick up a book on a new language and hit the ground running. Over 200,000 people have already signed up and are ready to start learning, including myself. While I am already a professional software engineer it never hurts to keep learning, or at the very least keep practicing.