I don’t really do New Year’s Resolutions, but the new year definitely provides a nice breaking point to officially make some changes.

This year will already be a big year for me, as my wife and I are expecting our first baby in May. That’s probably enough reason to think that any big resolution won’t happen, but I am feeling this one come on pretty strongly.

For nearly a year, I have been thinking about the fact that I don’t really know how to code and how, more and more, I am realizing that I really should know the basics. In my latest gig at eMusic, I was basically moving from a pure Marketing Ops role to more of a Product Marketing Manager, and I consistently kept managing projects where having some basic programming and coding skills would have helped me tremendously.

So when I saw this thing that Code Academy set up, called Code Year, it really hit my gut in the sweet spot, and I jumped on it. Now I don’t know if I’ll be able to learn enough on my own with just these online tutorials, or if I’ll even be able to pull off anything meaningful within the next 12 months, but overall I really think 2012 might finally be the year for me to stop talking about learning to code and start actually doing it.