Code Year
Code Year is a program put on for free by codeacademy.com for anyone who is interested to learn how to program. The program intends to help people follow through on a New Year's Resolution to learn how to program, by introducing a new course for every week in 2012.[1] Over 400000 people have started taking these courses, as of March 13, 2012.[2][3]
Courses
All courses are all currently in Javascript. New courses are released every Monday.[4]
The courses includes social gaming elements, such as sharing progress and badges. [5]
| Week | Course |
|---|---|
| 1 | Getting Started with Programming[6] |
| 2 | Functions in JavaScript[7] |
| 3 | Conditionals in JavaScript[8] |
| 4 | Build Blackjack[9] |
| 5 | Objects in JavaScript[10] |
| 6 | Objects in JavaScript, Part II[11] |
| 7 | Loops in JavaScript[12] |
| 8 | Building Blackjack[13] |
| 9 | Review of OOP[14] |
| 10 | Array and Loops in JavaScript[15] |
| 11 | Recursion in JavaScript |
References
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/06/technology/code_year/index.htm
- ^ http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/02/learning-javascript-with-code-year.html
- ^ http://codeyear.com/
- ^ http://codeyear.com/
- ^ http://www.good.is/post/code-year-wants-to-teach-the-world-computer-programming-in-2012/
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/1
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/2
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/3
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/4
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/5
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/6
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/7
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/8
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/9
- ^ http://www.codecademy.com/curricula/code-year/units/10