How to make your own website for free

A  personal website is a great way to tell your story. It can help showcase value, infuse personality, and even shed some light on your talents and passions in a different way from Vine or Pinterest. It can also help you better manage your online reputation, and give you a boost should someone Google your name. Think of your website as something akin to the new digital business card, where people you've just met can find out about your talents and passions. Here are four services that will let you set up a virtual homefront for free.


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How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks

To a lot of non-developers, learning to code seems like an impossibly daunting task. However, thanks to a number of great resources that have recently been put online for free— teaching yourself to code has never been easier. I started learning to code earlier this year and can say from experience that learning enough to build your own prototype is not as hard as it seems. In fact, if you want to have a functioning prototype within two months without taking a day off work, it’s completely doable. Read…

http://lifehacker.com/how-i-taught-myself-to-code-in-eight-weeks-511615189

How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code

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I Raised My Kids On the Command Line...and They Love It

Hopscotch HD Introduces Kids to Programming

Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both. Here are some of the best tried-and-true apps for teaching kids of all ages how to code. Read…

http://lifehacker.com/how-and-why-to-teach-your-kids-to-code-510588878

Computer Programming Tools

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http://powermylearning.com/directory/computer-programming

Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Scratch
Make your own interactive stories with games, music and art. You can save them or share them online.

Sodaplay
Create, play, and share your own models.

Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Kodu Game Lab
Kodu is a visual programming environment designed for building your games.

Alice
Learn fundamental 3D programming concepts to create animation for stories and games.

Codecademy
Learn and practice the basics of computer coding.

Scratch
Make your own interactive stories with games, music and art. You can save them or share them online.

Sodaplay
Create, play, and share your own models.

Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Kodu Game Lab
Kodu is a visual programming environment designed for building your games.

Stencyl
Create your own 2D Flash games.

Learn fundamental 3D programming concepts to create animation for stories and games.

Codecademy
Learn and practice the basics of computer coding.

Learn to Code a Basic iPhone App

Developing for iOS isn't the easiest task in the world, and it's hard to know where to get started. App developer and Instructables user A-Nony-Mus decided to help out and put together a guide to get you coding your first iPhone app as well as learn the basics of the Xcode platform.

Read more here
http://lifehacker.com/5936586/learn-to-code-a-basic-iphone-app

Free computer science online tutorial service Khan

On Wednesday, free online tutorial service Khan Academy will launch a new series of instructional videos covering the field of computer science.

"This project is going to blow the doors off Computer Science education," boasted Khan's dean of computer science and noted JavaScript programmer John Resig, in a Twitter message. "I have a feeling that people are going to have A LOT of fun with it."

 

Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.

With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

 

Khan Academy offers more than 3,000 free instructional videos in various subjects, including math, physics, finance, and history.

 

http://www.khanacademy.org/

 

 

Introduction to programming and computer science

Videos

1. Introduction to Programs Data Types and Variables
2. Binary Numbers
3. Python Lists
4. For Loops in Python
5. While Loops in Python
6. Fun with Strings
7. Writing a Simple Factorial Program. (Python 2)
8. Stepping Through the Factorial Program
9. Flowchart for the Factorial Program
10. Python 3 Not Backwards Compatible with Python 2
11. Defining a Factorial Function
12. Diagramming What Happens with a Function Call

1. Recursive Factorial Function
2. Comparing Iterative and Recursive Factorial Functions
3. Exercise - Write a Fibonacci Function
4. Iterative Fibonacci Function Example
5. Stepping Through Iterative Fibonacci Function
6. Recursive Fibonacci Example
7. Stepping Through Recursive Fibonacci Function
8. Exercise - Write a Sorting Function
9. Insertion Sort Algorithm
10. Insertion Sort in Python
11. Stepping Through Insertion Sort Function
12. Simpler Insertion Sort Function

Learn To Code Today with Google Code University

Google Code University (GCU) does not require any registration, and materials are free to use. In Web Programming, for example, there are lectures, videos, and contributed course content to teach users how to create interactive web applications that go beyond your basic static web page. Click the link to view the material below

• Tutorials and Introductions
• Courses
  • Programming Languages
  • Web Programming
  • Web Security
  • Algorithms
  • Android
  • Distributed Systems
  • Tools 101
  • Google APIs & Tools