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He has had 40,000 students sign up since he launched the website, codeavengers.com, in September.
Mr Walmsley, who completed his computer science degree at the university in 2008 and is now near the end of his PhD, developed the courses to encourage his younger siblings, who he tested them on before releasing them for general use.
In the first Javascript lesson, for example, students are shown how to write code to display a pop up box with a greeting.
He tailored them to the New Zealand syllabus because while there were resources available there was little for the New Zealand syllabus.
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