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
💡1/5
Ages 7–10 · first steps
Sparks
On and off, pictures made of switches, and giving a robot exact instructions.
- 🔌Inside the Machine
- 🤖Giving Instructions
🧩2/5
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
⌨️3/5
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
🧠4/5
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