My initial field of study was in Geographic Information Science (GIS), and it was through this course work that I learned coding skills. Mostly I studied the type of coding that is used for web pages like: HTML, CSS and VB, these have been very useful for blogging. Even when using standardized 'templates' you can highly modify the appearance if you know what you are doing. Whether you want to change font size or type, coloration of lettering, backgrounds, etc etc. all of this is buried in the code, and can be changed.
If you have never written code before don't let it intimidate you, there is really something for everyone. The skills I learned above were not necessarily the the most effective for the software tools one uses in GIS, the primary software is written in a code called Python. This is a fairly straight forward code and in GIS in almost all work settings you will use software called ArcMap and all sorts of custom tools can be built for that program if you know how.
What you choose to study should be based on what you objective is going to be, although lots of code knowledge is good, be careful to not waste your time. When taking a Computer Science class at the U of I my professor (and her sons) were really into building apps for the iPhone. Know what you would like to do and jump right into it, coding is a means of building and creating something out of letters, numbers and symbols using a computer and (usually free) software...so what are you waiting for? see the hyperlink below!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1dioIC/kMk$!ucN:jjfUYRT@/imgur.com/gallery/BL6Vs
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