You've heard the reasons not to start coding. Now here's a list of reasons why you should:
- People have less time, and that makes it harder to grab their attention. It's essential to look for new narrative structures. Programming enables you to get interactive and tell non-linear stories.
- Every year, the digital universe around us becomes deeper and more complex.
Companies, governments, organizations and individuals are constantly putting more data online: Text, videos, audio files, animations, statistics, news reports, chatter on social networks...
Can professional communicators such as journalists really do their job without learning how the digital world works?
- Data are going mobile and are increasingly geo-located.
As a result, they tell the stories of particular neighborhoods and streets and can be used to tell stories that matter in the lives of your community members.
- You don't have to build everything from scratch.
Let's take JavaScript, which is used for creating dynamic websites. Tools such as jQuery, a cross-browser JavaScript library, enable people to create interactivity with less effort. Web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Django support the development of dynamic sites and applications. So it can be easier than you thought.
SOURCE: http://to.pbs.org/b90vRR
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