Learning to code is sometimes difficult, normally because online you spend time reading tutorials, but normally that is a bit boring and not very engaging. However, we believe that the best way to learn to code is by actually coding things.
So we made this website which provides a mix of tutorials and questions, which breaks up long sections of content into bite-sized pieces and then quizzes your knowledge on that. All this means that you learn as productively as possible so you can get to coding your own projects as soon as possible.
If you want to contact us about an issue on this website or you have an idea for it, you're welcome to email us.
hello@codorial.com
We'll try to respond to you as soon as possible - normally within a few days.
Keep in mind that we're unable to provide one-on-one programming support. We'd recommend websites like Stack Overflow in that case.
While it's usually easier to learn things if you've had some kind of prior experience, it's fine if you don't because this tutorial starts from the beginning and will introduce you to programming. It's also good to use this tutorial in conjunction with other tutorials - getting other explanations and perspectives can often help you learn.
These words are technical vocabulary that you might not already know. To help you with them, hover over them to find out what they mean, in case you forgot. To get a list of all the technical vocabulary, go to the glossary page
The code editor uses Skulpt to run your code in your browser. The implementation we use is almost identical to Python 3 however you may notice slight differences between this and CPython (the reference implementation).
There aren't currently any plans to add more languages, but we might consider doing it in the future.
First, the code you see on the left or at the top can (usually) be edited. You can press the "Run" button to execute your code, and then the output will be shown on the right or at the bottom.
You can press the button to reset your changes, and you can press the icon to download your code as a file.
In the terminal (the bit at the right or the bottom), as well as showing outputs, it can also let you input text into your program. Try running this code:
If you enter strings with colour names in them, the string will be underlined in that colour. You can also use the turtles library in your code, and we can display the output for that too. Like this:
If there is an error in your code, when you run it, it will show up in the terminal, and the line that it's on will also be highlighted. For some common errors, an explanation will also be included to help you understand where you went wrong. It looks a bit like this:
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