Coding is, without a doubt, the must-have job skill of the 21st century — but it's not really something you can use the "fake it till you make it" strategy on.
In this comic, Krishna Sadasivam of PC Weenies proves that just because you can type and reboot your computer, you're not automatically some sort of software engineer.
See also: Coding Is the Must-Have Job Skill of the Future
Perhaps your 2014 resolution list should include taking some HTML classes.

Made by the team at Treehouse, Code/Racer is an online racing game that forces you to learn to code quickly to get ahead on the race track. Beyond this racing game, Treehouse boasts more than 650 instructional videos; as you complete courses, earn badges for your accomplishments.
Screenshot courtesy of Code/Racer
MIT has opened all of its course content to web audiences, so anyone, anywhere can learn from one of the top American research institutions. Think about it: An MIT education without the student loans or cut-throat application? Not too shabby.
Screenshot courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare
Udacity believes today's higher education system is broken. Education is no longer something that happens once in a lifetime, but rather is a lifelong experience. That's why it has ported loads of computer science, math and physics courses online.
Screenshot courtesy of Udacity
The Mozilla Developer Network is a resource-rich collection of documents about web development, made for anyone, from expert programmers to students just starting out. MDN is a wiki, meaning anyone can edit its pages with corrections and updates.
Screenshot courtesy of Mozilla Developer Network
On The CodePlayer, watch interactive presentations that explain how people built things from scratch. Once you become a coding pro, you can add your own presentations to teach others what you know.
Screenshot courtesy of The CodePlayer
Online education giant Coursera brings courses from dozens of top universities online, and lets anyone take them for free. Coursera classes are now available in five languages, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese, and are taught by professors from 62 universities.
Screenshot courtesy of Coursera
Unlike some of these other online education platforms, Codeacademy focuses solely on teaching coding. You can choose from courses grouped into eight tracks: APIs, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, web fundamentals, or combine languages into projects.
Screenshot courtesy of Codeacademy
Khan Academy brings millions of students from around the world together to learn all sorts of digital skills, from coding to calculus to computer science theory. This means you can become an expert coder and an expert mathematician in the same place.
Screenshot courtesy of KhanAcademy
Learn Python the Hard Way offers free PDFs, though, if you want to take the video version of the course, you'll need to fork up $29.
What does learning the "Hard Way" mean? The number-one rule is that you can't copy-paste; you must type out each of the lessons in order to teach your hands the language.
Screenshot courtesy of Learn Python the Hard Way
HTML5 Rocks is a one-stop guide to learning HTML5, written by tons of contributors who work for Google, Adobe and a bunch of other places. As an HTML5 Rocks student, you'll learn from slides, presentations and videos.
Screenshot courtesy of HTML5 Rocks
Homepage image: iStockphoto, domin_domin. Comic illustration by Krishna Sadasivam, PC Weenies. Published with permission; all rights reserved.