Research Guides: Computer Science Guide: Coding

Books (print and eBooks)

Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell; Mike Mroczka; Aline Lerner; Nil Mamano
Call Number: In Process (out on the shelves soon)

ISBN: 9781955706001

Publication Date: 2025-01-22

For over a decade, Cracking the Coding Interview has been hailed as the "bible" of interview prep.

Free Tutorials

Hour of Code
Most of their free training is aimed at K-12 but they have resources for higher education too.
Kahn Academy
Their mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Code Academy
In this series of lessons, you’ll explore ideas that are at the heart of learning how to code and start writing your own code.

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You will get a solid foundation in key programming concepts such as variables, functions, and control flow. Learning these concepts will set you up for success in any programming language that you choose to learn.
Free Code Camp
Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public. We also have thousands of freeCodeCamp study groups around the world.
edX
edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies.

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As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access.
Code Conquest
In our free code tutorials, you’ll be introduced to many widely used website languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. However, the fifth tutorial is on binary code – the native language of computers.

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The purpose of each of these tutorials is not to train you fully, but just to give you a taste. After reading them, you should have just enough knowledge to make a confident decision as to whether you would like to seriously learn these languages. And if you do want to take any of them further, each code tutorial finishes up with details on how to learn more.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.