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Beginner • 12 hrs • 51 lessons
Programming Foundations
The language-agnostic core: types, memory, concurrency and control flow.
Beginner difficulty•No downloads needed
- 12 hrs of content
- 51 lessons
- Beginner level
- Lifetime access
Curriculum
What you'll cover
- 01
Values, references and how memory behaves
- 02
Abstraction, composition and interfaces
- 03
Concurrency versus parallelism, explained plainly
- 04
Debugging as a systematic method
What you'll walk away with
- Production-ready code patterns you can ship immediately
- Deep conceptual understanding — not just syntax or memorisation
- Debugging intuition for real-world failure modes
- Architectural judgment you can defend in design reviews
Before you start
Who this is for
- No prior experience required
- Basic computer literacy
- Curiosity and patience
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"Each lesson rolls straight into the next. The videos are not the usual sleepy screencasts."
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Programming Foundations and every other course in the Odhiambo Atieno library are completely free — no subscription, no payment, no upsells.
- 51 lessons, 12 hrs of focused material
- Written for beginner engineers
- Lifetime access to updates