Programming for Absolute Beginners from Channel 9
Channel 9 has just launched an absolute beginner series to help people learn to program. There are two versions of the Development for Absolute beginners materials – one for Visual Basic and one for C# Well worth checking out.
There are some additional resources that have been out for a bit longer that you may not know about.
- Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
- Kinect Quickstarts
- ScriptTD: a tower defense engine for Windows Phone 7 – Andrew Parsons has some great help with that on his blog at Create and publish your own Tower Defense game
Comments
Anonymous
November 28, 2011
C# for beginners? Wouldn't it be better to have them use a REPL environment like F# or python?Anonymous
November 28, 2011
A lot of things determing what works for beginners - the language, the environment, the age of the learner, the learner's goals, additional resources, etc. That is one reason that I blog about a lot of different combinations of such. If one of those other platforms works for you that's great. I've had some great success over the years with a number of different environments when teaching programming.