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Coding is a useful skill to have in the newsroom, so if you'd like to get started with some lessons, have a look at this list of six tools recommended by the #interhacktives team at City University London.

The post recommends a number of tools that 'gamify' programming, such as Codecademy which sends badges and encouraging emails as you progress through the course.

It also points to a list of projects you could work on once you've finished an online course and find yourself without much guidance, and suggests doing Google searches for any error messages you might get to see how others have fixed them.

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