Programming Learning Resources

Context: An archived collection of beginner programming resources and tutorials sent to me by my high school CS&IT teacher, Scott Horan, back in 2014.

Snap! Tutorials & Berkley CS10

• Snap! Tutorial 1 (YouTube)
• Snap! Tutorial 2 (YouTube)
• Snap! Tutorial 3 (YouTube)
• Build Your Own Blocks (Scratch Modification)
• Berkeley BJC Summer

Online Resources for Teaching Beginners

• A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Alice: a 3d program for beginners
• Scratch (A system to develop programming skills)
• How To Design Programs
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Learn To Program
• Robert Read’s How To Be a Programmer
• Microsoft XNA
• Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers
• COMP1917 Higher Computing lectures by Richard Buckland
• Dive into Python
• Python Wikibook
• Project Euler - sample problems (mostly mathematical)
• pygame - an easy python library for creating games
• Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
• Foundations of Programming for a next step beyond basics.
• Squeak by Example
• Snake Wrangling For Kids (It’s not just for kids!)

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Archived from email correspondence: March 21, 2014