Not being able to code has put a damper on my ability to hire the right programmer and further grow my businesses. I have hired three programmers who all seemed fantastic and brilliant during ...

Programming can come in handy even if you work in a nontechnical field. Say you were a travel agent in the 1990s: If you didn’t know how to code, you wouldn’t have been able to see the coming ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Even though I’m not a programmer, I’ve been creating my own software tools with the ...