General Coding Resources

Getting Started

Codecademy has courses to learn:

• HTML/CSS (Front End Focus)
• Javascript (Front End Focus)
• Python (Back End Focus)

from scratch. All the coding is done in the browser, through small, bite size chunks to get you independently coding.

Diving Deeper

Python

• Awesome Python Experience
• learnpython.org
• Wikibook on Python Programming
• Learn Python the Hard Way

Django

The Django Tutorial is the best introduction to how Django works to create a web application. Completion of this tutorial will help you figure out your models from your views, and get you introduced the the Django templating language. (Back End Focus)

For a jumpstart on templating see this intro to Django templating. (Front End Focus) (broken link)

More templating tutorials.

jQuery

Codecademy's jQuery class. (Front End Focus)

jQuery 101 has a good overview of the basics of jQuery, the Javascript library that powers much of the front end code of KA Lite. (Front End Focus)

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Backbone

Backbone tutorials can help you get to grips with Backbone.js a library used in small but crucial parts of the KA Lite client side code. (Front End Focus)

d3

These tutorials will introduce you to data driven documents (d3), a Javascript library used to create dynamic data visualizations.