VIP. Adam Treister. I’m two months into my self-taught coding experience, and I must say: this is a lot of fun.
If you like oscillating between feeling like the stupidest person on earth and a maverick genius, you’ll love coding. I started using two education resources to reduce the learning curve: Lynda (www.Lynda.com) and Treehouse (www.TeamTreehouse.com). Both providers are similar in format and cost. They both include video lessons categorized by subject, and require a $25/month membership fee.
Below I’ve listed an overview of each, and a conclusion on which service I think is best to learn “How to Build Web Apps.” Lynda (www.Lynda.com) Lynda’s self-described mission is “To help you learn the skills you need to achieve your full potential.” Udemy. Recently updated for the 2015 tech market, "Become a Web Developer from Scratch (2015 version)" is probably one of the most complete and comprehensive online courses you will ever get to see covering web development from top to bottom.
In more than 40 hours of content, this course will cover all you need to know about how to become a top skilled web developer even if you never programmed before. Basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript BackEnd Development: PHP, MySQL, XML, jSON FrontEnd Development: jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3 Other: Wordpress, Bootstrap3. 'Hakitzu' Teaches Kids to Code With Robot Warriors. Complete with battling robots, challenging arenas and a little bit of friendly competition, Kuato Studio's new game seeks to both entertain and educate as it teaches children how to code.
Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior, a strategy game, prompts players to type basic JavaScript to control characters. The free iPad app pits two robots against each other in a battle arena, where each user takes turns coding increasingly complex instructions to move and use weapons. No previous knowledge of programming is necessary and the in-game keyboard is customized with commonly used keys. Kuato Studios takes an immersive gamification approach to pique players' interest in coding. Other organizations, like CoderDojo and Codecademy, aim to engage younger crowds with free courses and open-source software. Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love with.
Tom Critchlow's Presentations from Expon & Mozcation in Brazil. A day at the dojo – inside the CoderDojo revolution (video) - Irish Innovation News. Siliconrepublic.com editor John Kennedy spent a Saturday afternoon at a CoderDojo in Dublin. This remarkable movement, just months old, has led to hundreds of kids writing software code and is about to be replicated globally. As I lumbered with camera equipment across Pearse Street in Dublin on my way to the Science Gallery, an interesting spectacle emerged before my eyes. Parents with laptop bags escorting their kids who had their own little laptop bags walked hurriedly into the gallery. Tommy Refenes's Blog - How do I get started programming games??? The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.
The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. I remember maybe 5 years ago I emailed a M.I.T. professor after seeing her on a PBS special talking about AI. Finding the inner programmer in every Googler. This is the second post in a series profiling Googlers who facilitate classes as part of our g2g program, in which Googlers teach, share and learn from each other.
Regardless of role, level or location, g2g's community-based approach makes it possible for all Googlers to take advantage of a variety of learning opportunities. - Ed. Meet The Most Important Startup Of 2012. Parse Parse is used by 20,000 mobile developers—and that number grows 40 percent monthly.
This phenomenal startup gives app developers a way to build an app that looks and feels great. Instead of wasting time coding the technical necessities like Facebook connectivity and push notifications, Parse users can drag and drop the functions right into their apps. Parse powers some of the most popular apps in the world, including Band of the Day — a runner-up for App of the Year on Apple's App Store, in a batch of more than 400,000 other applications. PHP Scripts, WordPress Plugins, HTML5, jQuery, and CSS. 15 Fresh and Brilliant jQuery Tutorials. PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner. [box] For a complete list of Zend Training Courses – PLEASE CLICK HERE !
[/box] This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. Leadership: CEOs Learn to Speak in Code. As the co-founder of Byte Dept., a New York City Web development firm launched in 2009, Phillip Reyland would have appeared to be every bit the typical Web-savvy tech entrepreneur. On Learning to Code, pt. 2: Choosing a Programming Language. Not knowing much about coding makes it especially scary to jump right in.
You’ve probably heard just enough about all the different programming languages–C++, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. Learn Python the Hard Way.