Beginner's Guide to Coding and Data

This series will teach and empower beginners who want to learn about code and data science. We introduce programming by considering data first and then code. Skills acquired from this series will enable a beginner to create and participate in data science projects. We will learn how computers represent data, how to use the command line, how to write scripts, programs and much more!

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Data science explained | Learning to code for data science beginners - Programming concepts playlist

Computer programming explained | A look inside computer programs for beginners

Command line interfaces explained | Introducing CLIs for programming beginners

Hello world explained | First interactive program for programming beginners (Part 1)

Saving and running programs explained | Hello world for programming beginners (Part 2)

Data explained | An introduction to data for programming beginners

Getting and setting data on a web page with JavaScript | Coding tutorial

Textual data explained | Introducing characters, strings, and encodings for programming beginners

Using code to interrogate textual data | I'm a STRING. Ask me anything! | Coding tutorial

Unicode explained | Convert characters in Chuck Norris jokes - JavaScript example

Numerical data explained | Introducing digits, range and precision for programming beginners

Numeral vs Number | Introducing numeral systems for programming beginners

Binary vs Decimal | Introducing positional numeral systems for programming beginners

Hexadecimal explained | Higher than base-10 positional numeral systems

5 Patterns with Numbers - Binary to Base-36 | Numerals across bases

Is your name also a NUMBER? | Find what number your name is with math and code

Text to Binary explained | Introducing bits and bytes for programming beginners

Convert decimal to binary using Javascript | Text to binary with code