Put in a Google spreadsheet, get back a searchable database in an HTML page or embed code. Plus tutorial videos. Nifty.

Completists may believe you have to be able to build a computer from a bag of wire and lights and write your blog posts in binary before you’re ready to call yourself a coder. Sure, there is value in expansive knowledge, and we’re all trying to gain a deeper understanding of the technology we use. But we also have a clear goal: we’re storytellers, through word or pixel, and the story won’t wait for us to finish our self-imposed curriculum. So, pick up what’s at hand, learn what you need to get to the next step in your project and get to something real as soon as possible.