Programming Notes

Programming Challenges

The best way to learn programming is to write code. The following sites offer many different programming challanges. Choose one of the sites, sign up (you can use your GitHub account for single sign on) and start coding. Have fun!

• Exercism (open source, see exercism on GitHub)
• Codewars
• HackerRank

If you're already fluent with one of more languages and want to work on substantial projects, have a look at

• Good First Issue
• Best Open Source Programs For Students to Participate

Particularly the latter gives good starting points that may even be used for final year projects. Also, recruiters in IT companies will be impressed if you have a successful portfolio of open source contributions!

Lecture Notes for Printing

If you prefer reading printed lecture notes, you might like the documents created by the EU Future IT Professionals EDucation (FITPED) program. They contain, among others, resources on databases, web development, git, Python and C++. The documents are available on FITPED website. Note that, however, these documents are not really aligned with my courses.