More than 170,000 people have signed up for Codecademy’s challenge to learn how to code in 2012, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of them. The challenge, Code Year, was launched by New York-based startup Codecademy on Sunday and quickly took off as Twitter and Facebook users adopte…

When I tutored Computer Science back in college, I came to one conclusion: There are just some people who are unable to code. You need a certain switch to be flipped in your brain to be able to do it, and there are some people just don’t have it.

That is why I have never suggest coding to someone who isn’t a coder. If you are really good with computers and have that coding switch on in your brain, then you have probably already dabbled in a little HTML work or backend modifications. But if you never had the urge to find out how computers tick,  then I doubt that you will be able to pick up a language just like that, Mr. Bloomberg.