Learn to Code

The Government Digital Service is a diverse organisation, with lots of people with lots of different skills. Some people who work at GDS are professional software engineers, but many others have never written any code.

This documentation contains tutorials that are intended to take an absolute beginner through the basics of writing code.

Acknowledgements and Licence

The content of these tutorials has been adapted from several sources. In particular:

• Codebar (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
• jumpstartlab (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• _why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (CC BY-SA 2.5)

All additional content is released under the creative commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.