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CodeTips – Learn to programme, with little or no prior experience

by algodaily on 9/21/19, 3:58 PM with 12 comments

• by sleavey on 9/21/19, 9:03 PM

  Semi-related, pedantic remark on the title: in British English we commonly use the word "programme" in place of "program" for e.g. TV programmes and concert programmes. However, even in British English the correct form for a computer program is "program".

• by bazzargh on 9/22/19, 2:40 AM

  there's something very messed up with the organisation here. I tried two articles as entry points to see if this would be good for some of my nephews an nieces; the first was the first article in the 'Beginner' tag, which turns out to be:

  https://www.codetips.co.uk/what-is-a-switch-statement/

  In previous articles we've discussed the if statement... what previous articles? So, back to the front page to find a starting point. "FizzBuzz", "An Introduction to Coding Challenges", "An interview with Kevin Ball", "Arrays and loops with Javascript"...then finally one that seems like it might be the entry point:

  https://www.codetips.co.uk/writing-your-first-javascript-pro...

  If you've made it to this article you should have read the JavaScript Introduction, and be familiar with variables and data-types. wait, what?

  There seems to be no guided course here, or even a way in each article to get to the previous article, when clearly a lot of these assume prior knowledge (there is, but it's right at the end of the article, some of which are pages long).

  This could really do with a 'New readers start here', and put the navigation - even the fact that there _are_ previous articles - up top in each article.