Codeacademy.com

[Natster-104]

No idea where to put this, but all the more I should post it (might need a sticky)

So, as I'm studying computer science for GCSE, the teacher has pointed us to a brilliant website where we study how to code in detail

http://www.codecademy.com

ATM I can create very basic websites (very, very basic) and I know about variables in Python.

Some courses take longer than others, but with all the people saying we need more mods n stuff, give it a crack!

[Scrap Daddy]

Codeacademy is good stuff. I've learned a lot about java and android from there.

[Lemonism]

Awesome, I was thinking I might start learning Python sometime. Thanks for posting this dude.
I've been studying computing for a year now, but we use Pascal. I didn't know you could do computer science as a GCSE now either, that must be somewhat new.

[Natster-104]

Awesome, I was thinking I might start learning Python sometime. Thanks for posting this dude.
I've been studying computing for a year now, but we use Pascal. I didn't know you could do computer science as a GCSE now either, that must be somewhat new.

Yeah it was only released last year in our school for the,what they saw as, the students that had the best ict skills, there's about 40 in our class! 

Anyway, it's a life skill to go on your CV, so go ahead! :)

[Mouldy]

Natster, I appreciate it that you'd post this. This is fantastic for what I hope to be doing in the future!

Thank you good sir.

[toAst]

thats nifty. there's some awesome tutorials on unity on their website too if you wanna learn that. i watched a tutorial on making an angry birds type game and asides from when he started to get into the really code-heavy aspects (things that had obviously been covered in previous tutorials but were breezed over very quickly or assumed you'd already known) it was actually pretty encouraging. i really want to make some arcade-y sports games for droid or maybe an indie platform like an ouya or something

[Chaosmancer]

I was using that to teach myself Java (then it lost all of my progress and rejigged the order and I couldn't remember where I was). On the subject of using sites to teach coding, I'm currently using http://www.learncpp.com/ to teach myself C++. It's not like Codecademy (Codecademy has built-in success criterias and won't let you continue if you don't meet them, but on the other hand, it can be a bit anal at times (I spelled 'favourite' with a 'u', and it kept failing me, all of the other code was perfect and I was tearing my hair out. Learn CPP requires you to download something like Visual Studio to your computer, and it essentially tells you how it should work (and if yours doesn't work like that, you can check it over yourself. It is quite text heavy though)).