[mikeriess]

As a non-technical learning to program on my personal time, I think this article captures the rise of programming tutorials accurately, and hints at the greater trend of the internet enabling a new kind of renaissance person that can know a little bit about a lot- at least enough to know "how these languages function within the internet". That being said, I don't think codecademy, at least as it's currently developing, is enough to turn the layperson into a programmer.