Resources and coding lessons: Coding lessons for beginners

Compared to the young boys, young girls remain widely less motivated or absolutely no enticed when it comes to coding or to build their careers as a programmer. As a coder, people have an exceptional opportunity to improve living conditions, revolutionize the education, entertainment and promote good practices, when it comes to monitor your health or to promote sustainable development.

As part of our global commitment, make ICT careers more attractive is one of our key objectives. Therefore, Connectikpeople.co soon #Retinknow®, has gathered for you a set of tools, platforms, and programs capable to help you choose tech careers and acquired basic coding skills needed for many jobs in the near future.

When it comes to Coding lessons for beginners

1.     Scratch is a free programming language targeting young people (but good for adults as well!) where you can create your own interactive stories, games and animations.

2.     Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.

3.     Code School: Code School teaches web technologies with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.

4.     Code.org tutorials: Simple tutorials for beginners that can be completed in an hour or less.

Full online courses available:

1.     Coursera

2.     MIT OpenCourseWare

3.     Udacity

4.     Khan Academy: fundamentals of programming in the JavaScript language and ProcessingJS library.

Regarding the coding activities in Europe and the world, CoderDojo and Rails Girls, are global volunteer-led community of free programming clubs for young people and women respectively.

Code.org, is a US-based industry-backed non-profit.  Made with Code, has been initiated by Google with a set of supporters.