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Dave Dempsey

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4. 1. 2016 - 10:49

Today's Webtip: Learn to code

Harvard has a complete online course to help you do it.

It's that time of year again. Time to make announcements of all the things you are going to change, or stop doing, or, perhaps, start doing. I've given up on the giving up resolutions.

And I'm too jaded to actually believe I am going to start training for that Iron Man. But I am tempted to add one or two things to my start doing list.

Or start doing. Programming for example.

Again.

There are now hundreds, if not thousands of resources available online to start teaching yourself how to code. A few have been a webtip already. But the one I just found is different. To begin with, it's a Harvard course. A massively popular offering that has an almost cult like following. And looks more like an entertainment production than an academic lecture.

If you managed to get past the incredibly long intro, you might want to check out all it has to offer.

cs50.tv

And if that managed to tickle your fancy, don't forget about the collection of free online computer science courses at www.openculture.com