Digital Skill for Beginners - Toronto Course by Ladies Learning Code

Ladies Learning Code (LLC) is starting a 7 week night-time course, Digital Skills for Beginners, in October in Toronto.  What's different about this is that it is a hands-on course, with experienced mentors present to answer questions.

I hear often the comment from many folks, especially entrepreneurs (men and women) that they are not "computer-savvy".  In my opinion, nobody is born savvy of anything.  Entrepreneurs, you became experts in your business due to time and effort that you spent.  [ Quoting broadcaster Dini Petty, expertise and confidence is gained through the number "times through" you put yourself through - Dini applied this for every experience from her helicopter flying to interviewing. ]

So you may feel lacking in the area of "digital-saviness" but that is because there are only so many hours in the day, and you have spent those hours on your business.

Anyway, LLC's courses are well worth the time.  To date, to keep up with the latest evolution in digital, I have taken 7 of their Saturday courses (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Wordpress, Photoshop, Drupal, Python, responsive web-design).  I am competent in very few of the above areas as a practitioner, but I attend these so that I can responsibly hire people to do the work, and distinguish BS from greatness.  The mentors are what has made this work (I ask a gazillion questions, sit with them over lunch and ask more questions).  And the mentors also great potential freelancers for hire.

Some courses "speak at you".  That type of course is not useful for learning digital.  Digital is best learned by doing, and that's why the LLC courses, and this series, are well worth the time spent.

I am sure this course will fill up, so if you are considering it, do sign up for Digital Skills for Beginners up early.