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Being able to code is pretty cool. It really does feel like a superpower to be able to create something from next to nothing. While it is a great idea for everyone to learn to code, I think it is not just a good idea, but essential for entrepreneurs with a business background who want to start something in the tech space, to learn to code.

For ease of writing I’m going to refer to these people (business guys with no technology education or know-how) as “business types”. In contrast, techies or “tech types” are tech-entrepreneurs and programmers in general. There are two important scenarios I want to highlight, where the lack of technology education on the business types’ part can lead to serious friction.

Scenario 1

First off, we have the business type who sees the tech world ablaze with success and wants in. They ‘ideate’ (I’m not a big fan of this word if you can’t tell) constantly until they stumble upon their big idea. What do they do next? They find someone who can build this for them. If they can afford to hire a programmer and pay a decent price to get the product out that’s fine. But often, their goal is to bring the techie on as a co-founder. This is a very common story and one that isn’t well received.

This is a completely acceptable response. A lot of business types think “Oh I’ll just ask someone to build the product for me. I’ll give them equity and they’ll be so happy to be a part of this.” Building the product is more than half the work in the early stages and you’re pretty much asking a random person to do all this work for you for nothing. Time, especially a programmer’s time, is a lot of money. Sure there is equity involved, but that’s a great incentive for founders and co-founders who start things together and are passionate enough about the project to forgo current earnings for the promise of startup glory.

Instead, learn to code. If you are a business type not currently engaged in a startup, but want to, then immediately learn to code. There are plenty of resources out there, I am obviously going to promote Treehouse.

By learning how to program, even if it is at a very basic level, you are doing a few things:

• You’re giving yourself, depending on how much you learn, the ability to start building out this idea of yours immediately. You can start working on a very basic iteration and see how it works.
• You realize the scope of the project. By understanding what it takes to build a web app, or an iOS or Android app, you will realize how long it will take to build something like this, what sort of work is involved, and what are the technological limitations. Is your idea realistic?
• You appreciate the techie’s role in all this and by putting in some of the effort, hopefully, you’ll start to earn some respect too. If you work on the project as far as your knowledge takes you, and then try to bring someone else on board, that’s completely different than asking them to do all the work.

Scenario 2

The second scenario is when a business type is already involved in a tech company (or any company for that matter), but still doesn’t have much knowledge of what building a tech product means. The underlying problems are the same; they don’t understand the scope of the problem, the limitations, the timelines, and so on. This problem is more common within IT departments of non-tech companies. Marketing hands down something last minute and wants it done in a few days. “Can’t you just build it?”

If any of these business types learned how to code, even at the most basic level, it would eliminate all sorts of problems. You end up with better team communication, more respect for one another’s roles, and more realistic deadlines for product teams.

So while it’s a great idea for the entire world to be programming literate, I think that anyone in business who lies on the fringes of tech, whether they want to start a tech company, or whether they are work with techies at their day job, should be required to have some basic programming education.

For the record, I consider myself a business type and I am learning how to code.

The post Why “Business Types” Should Learn to Code appeared first on Treehouse Blog.

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd.

This creativity mission has been going on for over five years now, and we are very thankful to all the designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month. This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for May 2013. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!

Please note that:

• All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper,
• You can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?
• You can also download the wallpapers for Windows 7/8.

The Green Bear

Designed by Pedro Rolo from Portugal.

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• with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 2560×1440

Power

Designed by Elise Vanoorbeek from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Quote Of The Day

Designed by Eloise Ha from Malaysia.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Winter Is Over

Designed by Uxue Goikoetxea from Spain.

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• without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Raring Ringtail

Designed by Vlad Studio from Russia.

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• with calendar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

Get Caught Reading Month

Designed by Jill Hamilton from Canada.

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• with calendar: 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Full Of Spirit

Designed by Ushuk Maria from USA.

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• with calendar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900,
  1600×1200 (currently missing),
  1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

World’s Labor Day

Designed by debobrata debnath from India.

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• without calendar: 1024×1024, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Designed by Morgan Newnham from USA.

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• with calendar: 320×480 (currently missing),
  1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Octopus: The Master Of Disguise

Designed by Sasha Endoh from Canada.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

The Arabian Stud

Designed by Atelier Pall from Romania.

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• with calendar: 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1080, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1080, 2560×1440

A Better Summer

Designed by Joeri Claes from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

May I Love You

Designed by Julien Savoldi from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Game Boy

Designed by Sander Geenen from Belgium.

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• without calendar: 1024×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Mental Health Awareness Day

Designed by Kay Karremans from Belgium.

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• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×1024, 1280×720, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Old vs. New

Designed by Wannes De ROy from Belgium.

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• without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Museum Day

Designed by cheloveche.ru from Russia.

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• with calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Blooming

Designed by Alexandru Nastase from Romania.

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• with calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Ethnic Snake

Designed by Katerina Bobkova from Ukraine.

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• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080

Maypole Animals

Designed by Charlotte Blatchford from UK.

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• with calendar: 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

May Fiesta

Designed by Pat Buenaobra from Philippines.

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• without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

“He Who Sings…”

Designed by Yiannis Kranidiotis from Greece.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

Awaiting Rebirth

Designed by Kristof Van Espen from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1920×1080, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1920×1080, 2560×1440

Splash!

Designed by Ajan Navaratnasingam from London, UK.

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• without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 2560×1440

Mondriaan

Designed by Siemon Donvil from Belgium.

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• without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1920×1080, 2560×1440

Praise The Workers On Labor Day

Designed by N. Baeten from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Daydream

Designed by Maarten Wydooghe from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

May Around the World

Designed by dangerbrain from USA.

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• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

Mothers Day

Designed by Kim Janssens from Belgium.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1366×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Savanna May

Designed by Brian Jonah Obara from Kenya.

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• with calendar: 320×480 (currently missing), 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440
• without calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

Puppet Show

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

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• with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Join In Next Month!

Please note that we respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience throughout their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

A big thank you to all the designers for their participation. Join in next month!

What’s Your Favorite?

What’s your favorite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comment section below.

© The Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2013.

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