Code for a Change is an online interactive platform created during COVID-19 outbreak that aims to encourage people to develop programming skills. This community offers free coding lessons in the programming language Python, a coding challenge for beginners, and the opportunity to contribute to a charitable cause.
Put your Python coding skills into practice with beginner-friendly challenges based on bioinformatics problems that, on a larger scale, computational scientists have to deal with in their daily research. Bioinformatics is a field that tackles biological questions using computational methods and software tools. It combines biology, computer science, maths and statistics to analyse and interpret large and complex data.
Run our samples and write your own code snippets with trinket, an online all-in-one coding environment. Solve our challenges and practice with the interactive exercises in any browser, on any device.
Run our samples and write your own code snippets with trinket, an online all-in-one coding environment. Solve our challenges and practice with the interactive exercises in any browser, on any device.
Ready for the challenge? Practice your Python skills in our first edition of #HackTheVirus Challenge. There are a total of three tasks to solve, which are meant to be challenging for coding beginners. Each question has hints and example solutions, which also work on your phone for you to code on the go.
Just getting started? Try solving our lessons for beginners first.
Mariana Quiroga Londoño (she/her) is a Bioinformatician, MPhil in Medical Science graduate, research assistant and third-year PhD student in Haematology at the University of Cambridge. In her free time, she’s an education advocate, science communicator @marianaql.science (+25K on instagram) and innovator.