As recently as just a couple years ago, I had in-house designer colleagues telling me that they wished they had bothered to learn some web design and coding skills because print-only opportunities have become very thin on the ground. A couple were looking at possibly having to start over mid-career. I could only shrug helplessly, because while I made that transition successfully because of side coding skills I already possessed (I was working with them in a staff web designer role), I also knew that literally the only web design-related skills we were taught at the college level was how to make a personal portfolio site. In Flash. (In 2009.) Everything actually useful I had just coincidentally picked up over the years and I had no idea how someone without that experience should start.
Now I work with a bunch of developers, and they don’t have those problems. Which is part of why I’m trying to transition further into front-end dev, myself. 
