LibGuides: Computer Science and Engineering: Learn More on Your Own

Wired - Technology News Headlines

This news feed contains headlines from Wired, a magazine dedicated to computers, technology, and innovation

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Want to learn more on your own?

Beginner?

An Hour of Code (for all ages)

CodeAcademy

Advanced?

MIT free online courses

OpenStax books and tutorials

edX (MIT and Harvard U.)

Coursera

Take free online courses with certificate of completion - or self-study. Check for start dates if you are interested in gaining a certificate. See an example below:

Learn to Program and Analyze Data with Python
From the University of Michigan, this Specialization builds on the success of the Python for Everybody course and will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures, networked application program interfaces, and databases, using the Python programming language. In the Capstone Project, you’ll use the technologies learned throughout the Specialization to design and create your own applications for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.

MIT Media Lab

Many projects at the Media Lab are open-source and downloadable.

Fun and Games

CyberSIEGE
An educational video game and tool to teach computer and network security concepts.
Cybersecurity Lab (PBS - Nova)
Players work for a start-up social network company that is the target of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks; you will advance by using computer coding, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and vulnerability detection to solve various problems.