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

https://www.codetips.co.uk/

by algodaily • 7 years ago

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sleavey• 7 years ago

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".

DonaldFisk• 7 years ago

I have a copy of A Guide to Programming the National - Elliott 803 Electronic Digital Computer, and it spells it "programme" throughout, but that was written back in 1962. However, I haven't seen it spelt that way in the last 40 years or so.

scoot• 7 years ago

Pedantic remark on your pedantic remark – in the title it's used (still incorrectly) as a verb, not as a noun, so it would be the correct form for a programming computer is "to program".

omisnomis4• 7 years ago

Thanks :) I'll get that changed on the site.

bazzargh2• 7 years ago

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.

omisnomis4• 7 years ago

Hey,

I'm the CodeTips founder/owner, and I'm grateful for your feedback.

I'd like to get this to a position that your niece and nephew are able to use it, so if you're willing to continue the discussion that would be great.

Just to address your concerns....

- Where I have referenced previous articles, they are linked. For example the `if` reference is a link, that will take you to the article explaining that concept. I just checked the articles you mentioned, and the links are there and working.

- you're absolutely right that the articles are from latest - oldest. It wasn't necessarily built to be a "course", but I can see why the structure could be confusing. The balance is not having to make returning users scroll to the bottom to find new content, perhaps I could add a button that allows the user to sort the articles as they want to see them?

dannydfowler• 7 years ago

It sounds like they would like a "start here" link, not having to click random articles and follow the rabbit-hole back to the beginning - that's all.

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

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