MIT has opened all of its course content to web audiences, so anyone, anywhere can learn from one of the top American research institutions. Think about it: An MIT education without the student loans or cut-throat application? Not too shabby.
On The CodePlayer, watch interactive presentations that explain how people built things from scratch. Once you become a coding pro, you can add your own presentations to teach others what you know.
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HTML5 Rocks is a one-stop guide to learning HTML5, written by tons of contributors who work for Google, Adobe and a bunch of other places. As an HTML5 Rocks student, youll learn from slides, presentations and videos.
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If Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true:Understanding how to code is the new literacy.
Online education giant Coursera brings courses from dozens of top universities online, and lets anyone take them for free. Coursera classes are now available in five languages, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese, and are taught by professors from 62 universities.
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Made by the team atTreehouse, Code/Racer is an online racing game that forces you to learn to code quickly to get ahead on the race track. Beyond this racing game, Treehouse boasts more than 650 instructional videos; as you complete courses, earn badges for your accomplishments.
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The Mozilla Developer Network is a resource-rich collection of documents about web development, made for anyone, from expert programmers to students just starting out. MDN is a wiki, meaning anyone can edit its pages with corrections and updates.
Take Zuck and Gates advice learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs and opportunities. But youre probably thinking, where do I even begin? Will code classes drain my money and time?
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What does learning the Hard Way mean? The number-one rule is that you cant copy-paste; you must type out each of the lessons in order to teach your hands the language.
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Fortunately for you, there are loads of ways to learn coding online, without paying a thing.
Weve rounded up 10 places on the web that teach coding through video tutorials, games and quizzes. Try out one or two and let us know what you think.
Udacity believes todays higher education system is broken. Education is no longer something that happens once in a lifetime, but rather is a lifelong experience. Thats why it has ported loads of computer science, math and physics courses online.
Learn Python the Hard Way offers free PDFs, though, if you want to take the video version of the course, youll need to fork up $29.
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Unlike some of these other online education platforms, Codeacademy focuses solely on teaching coding. You can choose from courses grouped into eight tracks: APIs, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, web fundamentals, or combine languages into projects.
Khan Academy brings millions of students from around the world together to learn all sorts of digital skills, from coding to calculus to computer science theory. This means you can become an expert coder and an expert mathematician in the same place.