Is it really important for e-commerce entrepreneurs to be great with programming and coding? The relevance of the same has been elevated to a dimension for a competitive advantage than a necessity.

Learning - Entrepreneurs, if they learn to code, wouldn't feel left out from the tech-savvy developers! No matter what the department is, but technology has paced out to be really important in every face. From accounting to market research, technology has helped to enhance and reconfigure the processes. So learning coding would come handy!

Provide better solution and crack issues - If you know to code, you would be able to understand technical issues, and help your team in developing the best solution.

Build better relations with the employees - If you know to code, you can motivate your team well, help them with coding and creating applications. It also helps in cutting down costs and redundant resources.

Manage during peak and unavailability of resources- During peak season or if there is any unavailability of some programmer, you can easily manage the situation if you have good coding skills.

Better decision making -

At certain points, you would find some of your team members coming up for queries and solutions. At situations like these, technical knowledge would come handy. You will be able to make better decisions. Better levels of thinking and creative efforts - If you have access to technical solutions, the way you think and the decisions you take would vary. You might go for a lot of issues to be automated, and this would reduce down the costs and boost efficiency.

Customization -

 Not all e-commerce enabling sites requires coding skills. A few are user-friendly to non-programmers, but customization takes a toll here. But an application like Magneto enables to provide a lot of customization if you have good knowledge about coding and back end customization.

Now let us take a look at the languages that are very much required for an entrepreneur to learn and build on-

PHP -

It is easy to learn this language, and peculiarity of this language is that it has been developed specifically for website development.

Ruby -

This is the language that has enabled the development of a lot of e-commerce sites. Ruby is yet another platform that is easy to get used with and the readability it offers is really great.

Python -

For amateurs in coding, python, an open source programming language is indeed easy to learn and understand. This platform has been used to develop games as well as website pages.

There are a lot more programming languages like Java, Go, Swift, Rust and Kotlin, which are easy to learn and develop. Now these are a few programming languages that not just helps in customizing your site but also would help you gain a competitive edge over other firms and at end of the day you would be able to assist your team well.