💡 Get Curious About Tech
- Look at apps, websites, and games you use every day.
- Think: How do they work? Who builds them?
- Watch videos about coding ("How Websites are Made", "How Internet Works").
⭐ Watch this:
Computer Science Harvard full course
🧩 Learn The Basics
- Try Scratch to make games and animations.
- Play with HTML & CSS to build a webpage.
- Discover what coding means step by step.
🛠️ Build Something Small
- Make a project about your hobby or an idea.
- Share it with friends or family.
- Keep improving it little by little.
⭐ Add your projects on GitHub, search there for other people's coding challenges and projects
Learn GitHub basics
🌍 Discover Different Roles
- Design: How things look.
- Testing: Making sure it works.
- Project Management: Organising work.
⭐ Collaborate with AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc) to find out about different tech roles, search on YouTube "day in a life of a software developer/data scientist/cybersecurity engineer/I engineer ..."
🚀 Grow Your Skills
- Start learning JavaScript or Python.
- Try free online courses and tutorials.
- Earn digital badges for your CV.
⭐ Explore:
Codecademy
🎓 Next Steps
- Choose Computer Science or Computing if you can.
- Look into apprenticeships and courses.
- Keep building your portfolio of projects.
⭐ Search apprenticeships on gov.uk
GOV UK