am a total newbie....id really appreciate it if someone could give me pointers on where and with what to start with.
Have you already watched the very first lecture video?
am in china and they have recently upped their security so i cant use the proxy i had to access youtube.....so no,i havent
:( Yeah the materials can be hard to access. They are available on torrent sites; search for MIT 6.00
If you can't get the videos, can you access the transcripts of the lectures? What about the reading assignments? You would get a good basic understanding of programming in general if you can read the assignments & hack around in Python while doing it.
I found the reading, "How to think like a computer scientist" very helpful. Have attached it
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