We're happy that you've begun your exciting exploration into the fun and limitless world of programming!
We hope that you'll also want to spread the joy of Hour of Code with your friends and family.
In addition to the Beyond One Hour exercises on the code.org site, we've collected the additional tips and resources that we wanted to share with you:
- Encouragement from mentors
- What can you do with coding?
- Free in-person resources
- Programming Courses
We've asked the mentors from Saturday's Hour of Code for advice or words of encouragement. Here's what they had to say:
“Keep going! Look for tasks that you perform on your computer
that are ripe for automation, and use your programming skills
to dispense with them for good.”
“If you had fun, keep at it. I started out making little games
on my family's computer, and over 15 years later, I still
enjoy it.“
“Pick something simple to build and use that as a focal point
for learning rather than trying to learn a language and then
build something with it.”
“Programming can be a really rewarding experience, and there's
no limit to what you can do with it.”
Here's just a few ideas of what you can do with coding!
You can interface with hardware, build robots, program christmas lights, or build custom games:
You can use programming to study the human mind, make your dream idea, or change careers (even at 55!):
- CoderDojo NYC hosts free monthly workshops for youth ages 7-17.
- NYC Python and Women Who Code provide office hours, hacknights, workshops and talks all for free, for programmer beginners and experts alike
- CodeBuddies is a free service to help you stay motivated and learn faster by connecting you to other code learners via Google Hangout
- Codecademy, KhanAcademy, Cousera all have wonderful free online courses
- General Assembly, GirlDevelopIt and DevBootcamp host inexpensive in-person courses.
