• Question: what resources could i look at to learn more about computer science?

    Asked by LOOK to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 7 Mar 2019.
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      Graeme Burt answered on 7 Mar 2019: last edited 10 Mar 2019 5:22 pm

      I recommend getting a raspberry Pi and learning to programme it. There are lots of books on fun things to do with them or just google “fun projects to do in a raspeberry pi”. If you prefer hardware why not build your own computer? I did that when at school (and managed to burn out the motherboard) but it was fun.
      I really think you learn things like that far more by doing them than reading about them.

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      Hannah Griffin answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Depends on what you know already I suppose. I think code.org is great – see https://studio.code.org/courses to have a go at courses or maybe an “Hour of Code”

      MakeCode is neat also https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/makecode

      and there are loads of games for coding including Cameron Chapman’s great list at https://skillcrush.com/2017/04/03/free-coding-games/

    • Photo: Leah Morgan

      Leah Morgan answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Oohhh I’m not sure specifically, but there’s looaaads online. Try searching for the best reviewed sites 🙂

    • Photo: Lesley Colquhoun

      Lesley Colquhoun answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      ooh not a computer scientist however have a look at different universities and the courses they teach in a computer science degree, this might give you an idea of whether it is actually computer science you want to do or maybe more software/ programming.

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