Online Computer courses

[lindy20]

My 13 year old son has Aspergers is interested in finding a course online to involve the above mentioned ......i know theres loads but could anyone recommend any good ones.....

also interested in this

what kind of computing does he mean? my son fancied having a go at programming so I bought a book called Hello World from Amazon which seems to be going well. DS is a year younger than yours and not very academic so the book must be quite accesible.

Would be interested to hear what others have found

My DS and some other EHE young people are joining in Young Rewired State 2012 starting 6 August. They spend a week programming in a group in a centre (in a company with adults from the company as mentors) then they go to a "camp" for the weekend. Prizes are awarded.

They have a resources page with lots of links to other programming sites. It might be worth starting there.

Thank you to SDeuchars and Giraffe,,,,,,,,,,,,got alot going on in my life just now .............but your info is good........im trying to be mum financial adviser juggling and ticking all the boxes {hate that saying}.......but soon hopefully we will be able to carry out what we want to happen....will let you know......

Hi Lindy

I am a programmer here are a list of outstanding free online providers in a variety of computery subjects
udacity
coursera

If he really wants to get heavily into programming he should maths based classes too which you can find at khanacademy.

If you can manage to get him a Raspberry Pi for his pet projects then do so. I would encourage him to learn as many languages as possible and keep coding as much as possible on small projects or even better get involved in open source projects.

If he has any specific interests that you want to chat about then feel free to contact me.

oh and get him on the wolfram alpha site

Thanks for the info Fusam.......will have a look into it.........