• The Recruit — 16–18 year olds
• Generating Genius — STEM students, year 7–uni

• Bristol Trackr — UK tech internships

• BelEve UK — Mentoring for women and girls
• 10K Black Interns — internships and career opportunities for Black students and graduates

Learning resources for beginners.

Interactive, beginner-friendly platforms

These make learning less intimidating.

• freeCodeCamp — Free, just sign up. Beginner-friendly, covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and more, with projects and certificates.
• Codecademy — Guided, interactive coding exercises in multiple languages.
• Kaggle Learn — Great for Python and data science beginners, with short, hands-on lessons.
• W3Schools — Simple explanations of syntax; good for quick lookups.

YouTube & free video courses

Visual learners thrive here.

• freeCodeCamp YouTube — Full 8–12 hour crash courses for Python, JavaScript, SQL and more.
• CS50's Introduction to Computer Science (Harvard) — Teaches problem-solving and coding fundamentals. Free via YouTube or edX.
• Programming with Mosh — Clear, concise explanations for beginners.
• Udemy — A variety of free and paid courses in many languages.

Project-based learning

Learn by making things — it sticks better.

• Build a simple website (HTML, CSS, JS).
• Make a personal portfolio site. It shows employers you can do something practical.
• Code simple games like Tic Tac Toe or Snake, which are good for logic and loops.
• Automate boring tasks (file renaming, data scraping) with Python.

Practice & problem-solving

Consistency builds fluency.

• LeetCode — Good for algorithmic thinking (start with the easy ones).
• HackerRank — Beginner-friendly coding challenges.

A free, ready-to-use CV template for students applying to internships and placements.

1. Open a copy of the template in your own Google Drive.
2. Fill in your details using the guidelines on page 2.
3. Save it as Firstname_Lastname_CV as a PDF.