Question

I know almost nothing about Computer science and electronics, and would love to change that. Is there anything interesting online that has information on things like this?

Answer 1

By computer science and electronics, do you mean stuff about coding, or the hardware itself?

Answer 2

Coding of computers (or discrete maths in general) or hardware of electronics

Answer 3

you could try html.net It has some tutorials for html. If you're past that, you could just try a google search of learn (insert coding style name) online free, and you'll definitely get a few good results.

Answer 4

Codeacademy may also be useful to you. I am unsure if they are still allowing people to sign up.

Answer 5

also
udacity.com
New free courses start tomorrow!

Answer 6

Im an IT major check out www.freetechbooks.com they will tech you about anything you want to know in computer science.

Answer 7

JamesJ's link has a great CS101 online class, as well as a whole bunch of more advanced stuff as you progress
http://coursera.org has a CS101 class too, and it will begin next week!
http://cs50.tv and http://ocw.mit.edu are self-serve but they both teach you a lot

http://6002x.mitx.mit.edu
An online class for MIT"s Electric Circuits, although we are presently halfway through the syllabus. Excellent stuff in there.

Answer 8

I also recommend the coursera CS101 class for some basics, and then the SICP course from ocw (or if you're up for it, do the SICP right away). Another thing I would recommend is installing Linux in addition to whatever OS you have right now. For starters I recommend a distribution like Ubuntu. Just trying out things on the command line, using tools such as "grep" and so on, will get you on the right track.

6.002 might be a little heavy for a total beginner; it expects differential equations as pre-/co-requisite. Just get some kind of kit and build a traffic light out of LEDs.