Learning To Program

Getting Started with programming

• http://learn.code.org/hoc/1
• Google blocky - and the online demos
• Java implementation of Turtle - Recipes to draw fun shapes
  • http://teachingkidsprogramming.org/blog/kids-learning-programming/recipes-for-java/java-recipes/

Online Classes

• https://www.udacity.com/course/cs046 - I haven't taken this, but I expect it to be good
• http://www.codecademy.com/learn - Friendly online site with emphasis on web dev - html/css, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP
• https://www.udacity.com/course/ud248 - Make Your Own 2048 - Html / CSS game

Practice / challenge

• http://codingbat.org/java - very fun IMHO - Once you have each problem working, see if you can refactor it to the shortest, most understandable version
• http://codility.com - In browser coding, ResMed uses for interview clients Sample Test
• http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ - program robot tanks to battle each other - can be simple or get very advanced. If you have a mentor, challenge them to a battle =)
  • Looks similar, but I haven't tried it: http://fightcodegame.com/
  • Other robot games: http://sumost.ca/steve/games/
• Google Code Jam - Pretty challenging, don't get discouraged
• Find an open source project to contribute to
  • Ex for active Java projects: https://github.com/trending?l=java

Kid Specific

• Play-i robots: https://www.play-i.com/
• http://teachingkidsprogramming.com - fun introductory material

Concepts

• TDD
• Refactoring
• Pair programming
• Learn your tools: Eclipse | IntelliJ | Netbeans, etc.

Other Resources

• Bento: list of learning resources for various languages
• Processing
• Scratch
• Alice
• http://code.org/learn/codecademy - lists of resources