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22 Best Places to Learn Coding for FREE - Best of Lot

javinpaul on July 16, 2019

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Austin Standing

Some gems in here!

I used to compile lists of the more formal learning sites to learn for free until I stumbled across a beauty called Class Central that already does that. I'm not tied to them in any way, just a fan. They break things up by subject, university, or by provider if you already have memberships. They also stay on top of all these sites changing their revenue models.

What they don't do though is promote these sites that are dedicated to very specific skills.

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javinpaul

Class Central is indeed a good addition. thanks for sharing with us.

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Dimitri Merejkowsky

exercism.io is really cool too. Been there both to learn Rust and teach Python, was a great experience :)

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javinpaul

Thanks, I haven't checked it yet but thanks for suggestions.

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Jake Murray

For Java, codegym.cc/ is the best site I have come across.

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javinpaul

is Codegym free?

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John Selawsky

CodeGym is free as a mobile app.

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Jake Murray

Sorry I just saw your comment. When I used it it was!

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Claire McCrea • Edited

Re: number 10:

I paid for Leo Trieu's Airbnb course last year and wasn't a fan. He assumes a good amount of knowledge from the user, despite advertising the course as no experience needed (I had completed half of freecodecamp.org's curriculum when I tried it, so I had some experience to my name), and his answers to questions from the community were often borderline rude and/or just unhelpful (pasting a link to a stackoverflow answer with no context or explanation).

There were a couple instances where commenters pointed out security flaws that should be addressed, and he thanked them for pointing them out but then wouldn't answer more questions about the flaws or how to fix them (his response was something along the lines of "you don't need to worry about it," if I remember correctly).

My overall impression was that he was interested in making videos and having people pay monthly subscriptions for them, but he didn't actually care at all about helping people learn. Which is a shame, I was really excited to build the Airbnb clone 😕

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Juneau Lim

Don’t know the exact algorithm, but may I congratulate?🎉
It’s chrome iOS. I think they at least showing relevant articles to my growing history, but barely saw blog post. So for me it seemed a ”thing”.
this post on chrome home tab

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javinpaul

It seems chrome suggestions getting better day-by-day

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Juneau Lim

What a humble person you are.

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David Collins

Their album is just something. Now I’m planning to create a website for fans of this group. Let’s all help me together to promote our group. The site is already under construction, the only problem I encountered is the synchronization of SQL databases. I plan to use Avtosin. Perhaps someone will tell you better options? There are certainly programmers among fans of heavy metal.

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KiritchoukC

I like CodinGame
It's fun and challenging.

And you can use TDD to solve the puzzles :)

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javinpaul

Looks interesting, I am going to check them out this weekend, thanks for the suggestion.

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Sameer Kapur

Hey! This is a great list - thanks for sharing! One great addition: thecodex.me/. Our goal is to create the best place to learn Python on the web. Our big focus is on application of concepts through projects (we release a free project every tuesday!). Let me know what you think - would love to get some feedback on how our site stacks up and could be improved. thanks!

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Miłosz Gałganek

This is a great list, I didn't know many of the recources you provided! I'd like to add some Python-related recources, as well. They are divided by the level of advancement, which I think is very cool. I hope you find them useful.

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Boris Stanojevic

I feel it's inappropriate to leave out edX

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javinpaul

hello Boris, I agree, edX is a great resource. I will include edX when I revise these article with a few more resources. thanks for suggestion

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Luke Tangwa

I think to missed out teamtreehouse.com

They provide most of top programing courses with certification.

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javinpaul

I don't think they are free, do they have any free tutorial or course?

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Joseph Odunsi

As a beginner in programming, I use edx.com

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javinpaul

Yes, I did check edx.com a very good resource.

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Addy

Typo on #4

plurasight.com -> pluralsight.com

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javinpaul

Thanks, corrected it now.

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Arslan Ahmad

designgurus.org has really good courses on coding and system design interviews.

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javinpaul

That's true, I like it to make 50 and could do with your help, feel free to suggest any website which is worth including in this list.

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veterant

Take advantage of goormIDE.
goormIDE is a fantastic cloud based IDE and it's free!

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markomihajlovic

On udemy.com you can also learn ALL programming languages in less than 40 minutes now for free:

udemy.com/less-than-3-hours/?coupo...

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Ankur Tiwari

Super!!

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Danan Dio

awesome, thanks for share