Will 2012 be a good year for web/technology education?

It looks like a lot of people are thinking about the talent gap in web technology and how we can extend our knowledge & educate others.

Code Year promotes learning to code with weekly lesson links by email and the opportunity to join a movement:

Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it.

http://codeyear.com/
http://www.codecademy.com/

Paul Graham, Founder Y Combinator, on the Code Year website:

If you want to invest two years in something that will help you, you would do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA

Joel Spolsky writes about The Academy for Software Engineering coming to NYC in the fall:

OMG do we ever need more software engineers. The US post-secondary education system is massively failing us: it’s not producing even remotely enough programmers to meet the hiring needs of the technology industry. Not even remotely enough...

But college is not for everyone—many of the best programmers I know were just not interested enough in a general four year degree and went straight into jobs programming.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/13.html

Mandy Brown (@aworkinglibrary) polled Twitter for the Best beginner resources on HTML/CSS.

Jake DiMare, at CMS Myth, writes about the Millennial generation, their familiarity with web publishing, and advocates reverse-mentoring:

First of all, to a millennial, contributing content with a CMS is second hand. This is a generation of digital natives who has not known a world without the Internet. They had Facebook in high school. They get it. The days of explaining how to copy and paste embed codes or wasting hours fussing with typeset issues like ‘widows and orphans’ will soon be a thing of the past when they begin replacing their predecessors in the workplace.

http://www.cmsmyth.com/2012/01/what-can-millennials-teach-us-about-the-future-of-content-management