If you would like to try coding as a hobby or a career have a look through the below resources that you can use to learn online, further information is available in our Eduation section of the site including local College courses, Clubs and Software Cornwall events and workshops so do register your interest by emailing [email protected]
Do get it touch if you get stuck or stuck in, we’d love to hear from you about your journey and any further resources you know of that may help others to try coding.
Thanks to Paul and the team at Bluefruit for supplying this brilliant list!
Online video resources are:
- https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/electrify– This was OK for absolute beginners, contains very basic introductory material.
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C++_Programming/Exercises/Iterations– A set of 26 c++ exercises, starting with very basic reading input and building up from it. Also contains solutions.
- http://www.tutorialspoint.com/computer_programming_tutorials.htm– Free to access tutorials for various languages. Ideal for beginners.
- http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/c-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners– Great 25 part video tutorial for C#, from the absolute beginning, including using Microsoft Visual Studio. Need to create an account / sign in with a Microsoft account to access.
- https://connect.emailsrvr.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=6zqDGNtCI0m2wWjFE4JB_YkGFcxar9EIyQwyMgfzzfhxQxPf8zLic7ihWtNV4hK7Bx6JJF8Bthc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fanshulmalik.net%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2012%2f01%2fKernighan-Ritchie.pdf– C++ book
- http://www.cplusplus.com/– various resources including tutorials.
- bogotobogo.com– lots of tutorials in lots of languages, website’s not very well laid out though
University Level courses
- udacity.com-:lots of beginner courses
- coursera.org
- edx.org