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Code Quest

Each stage is a wider word: from 1 bit, a single switch, to the 64 bits of a modern processor.

Find your level

Choose the stage that sounds like you, or let a short placement quiz suggest one.

Take the placement quiz

About 10 questions that get harder as you go. Stop whenever it feels too hard: that's where you'll start.

I know my level

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Ages 7–10 · first steps

Sparks

On and off, pictures made of switches, and giving a robot exact instructions.

  • 🔌Inside the Machine
  • 🤖Giving Instructions
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Ages 10–13

Builders

Counting in binary, letters as numbers, logic gates and a circuit that adds.

  • 🔢The Secret Code of Computers
  • 🚦Logic: Machines that Decide
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Ages 13–16

Coders

How a transistor works, gates made of transistors, memory, and your first real programs.

  • ⚛️The Transistor: the Switch that Changed Everything
  • 🐍Your First Programs
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Ages 16–18

Engineers

Inside the processor, machine code, compilers, searching, sorting and big O.

  • 🧠How a CPU Works
  • 🪜From Code to Machine
  • ⏱️Algorithms: Thinking Fast
🏛️5/5

Ages 18+ · advanced

Architects

Turing machines, the limits of chips, the call stack and floating-point numbers.

  • ♾️The Limits of Computation
  • 🧬How Programs Really Run