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# Learn to Program [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
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#### Foundation in Web Development
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The Internet is filled with an ever-expanding number of courses, books and guides for programmers of all skill levels to improve their skills. Unfortunately, these resources are either hard to find or of low quality.
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This list aims to be a curated set of high quality educational resources. The availability of free content on the platform is highlighted along with the primary topics covered.
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## Beginner
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#### [Mozilla Webmaker](https://webmaker.org/)
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**Free** community and toolset to learn to create web pages and apps\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)*
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#### [Codecademy](https://www.codecademy.com/)
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**Free** platform for learning to code in web technologies\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP)*
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#### [Khan Academy's Hour of Code](https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode)
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**Free** interactive 1-hour course to learn the very basics of web development\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL)*
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#### [UpLeveled Bootcamp Prep Course](https://learn.upleveled.io/)
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**Freemium** platform for learning the basics of web development\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Git, GitHub)*
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#### [Treehouse](https://teamtreehouse.com/)
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**Paid** platform for courses how to build websites & apps\
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*(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)*
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#### [Learn CSS Layout](https://learnlayout.com/)
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**Free** tutorial for how to do layout with CSS\
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*(CSS)*
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#### Udemy [Programming](https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=programming), [Development](https://www.udemy.com/courses/Development/)
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**Freemium** marketplace of courses from third party providers. Quality may vary.\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Python, iOS, Android)*
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#### [Code Avengers](https://www.codeavengers.com/)
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**Freemium** platform for basic web and app develoment courses\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### [learn.shayhowe.com](https://learn.shayhowe.com/)
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**Free** beginner to intermediate guides on web development\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### [HTML Dog](https://www.htmldog.com/)
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**Free** beginner and intermediate guides on web development\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### Degreed [Web Development](https://degreed.com/learning/web%20development), [Programming](https://degreed.com/learning/programming)
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**Mixed** directory of courses, videos and other learning resources for web development and programming. Quality may vary.\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Rails)*
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#### [Platzi](https://courses.platzi.com/)
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**Free** Platform for classes on Design, Marketing, Startup and Code. Learn the future of the web.\
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*(RethinkDB, SailsJs, NodeJS, Git, Startup Class, etc)*
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#### [Free Code Camp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)
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**Free** Learn to code and help nonprofits. An open source community of people who learn to code and help nonprofits.\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Databases, Git & GitHub, Node.js, React.js, D3.js)*
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#### [Vertabelo Academy](https://academy.vertabelo.com/)
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**Free** SQL courses with interactive exercises and quizzes\
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*(SQL, database concepts)*
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#### [GitHub Learning Lab](https://lab.github.com/)
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**Free** Self paced, interactive projects to learn Git and GitHub. Created and maintained by GitHub's training team.\
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*(Git, GitHub)*
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#### [Grid Garden](https://cssgridgarden.com/)
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**Free** game that teaches the CSS grid system created by [@thomaspark ](https://github.com/thomaspark )\
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*(CSS)*
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#### [Hexlet.io](https://en.hexlet.io)
**Mixed** Self paced, interactive projects to learn JavaScript, C, Regular Expressions and computer science in general.
*(JavaScript, Regular Expressions, Bash, computer science, Ansible)*
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#### [Programming Historian](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/)
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**Free** Peer reviewed introductory courses for digital humanists.\
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*(Python, R, Unity, QGIS, HTML, Regular Expressions)*
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#### [Software Carpentry](https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/)
**Free** Foundational coding and data science skills for researchers.\
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*(Python, R, OpenRefine, Unix Shell, Git)*
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#### [Hyperskill by JetBrains Academy](https://hi.hyperskill.org/)
**Free** teaches programming in Java by creating small applications built step by step\
*(Java, OOP, Gradle, Maven, Spring Boot)*
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## Intermediate
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#### Khan Academy [Computer Programming](https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming), [Computer Science](https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science)
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**Free** intermediate to advanced courses on how to program drawings, animations, games and webpages and more advanced computer science topics\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, algorithms, cryptography)*
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#### [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/)
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**Free** platform for computer science and web development courses\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data science, Python, computer science topics)*
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#### [Learn Python the Hard Way](https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/)
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**Paid** book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming\
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*(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)*
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#### [Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial](https://www.railstutorial.org/book)
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**Free** online book covering all stages of creating a Ruby on Rails application\
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*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails)*
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#### LinkedIn Learning: [Web Development](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/topics/web-development), [Web Design](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/topics/web-design)
**Paid** platform for video courses on web development and design\
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web development, web design)*
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#### [Thinkful](https://www.thinkful.com/)
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**Paid** platform for mentored web and mobile development courses from industry experts\
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*(web development, frontend web development, AngularJS, Android, iOS)*
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#### [exercism.io](https://exercism.io/)
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**Free** crowdsourced mentorship platform of programming exercises and code reviews\
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*(Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, JavaScript, Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Scala, Swift)*
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#### [Stanford on iTunes U](https://itunes.stanford.edu/)
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**Free** programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University\
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*(programming, startups, iOS)*
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#### [PluralSight](https://www.pluralsight.com/tag/developer?pageSize=48&sort=popular)
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**Paid** platform for web development courses\
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*(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)*
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#### [CodeChef Problems](https://www.codechef.com/problems/easy/)
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**Free** intermediate to advanced programming problems\
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*(programming)*
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#### [CodingBat](https://codingbat.com/)
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**Free** practice problems in Python and Java\
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*(Python, Java)*
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#### [Codewars](https://www.codewars.com/)
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**Free** code challenges. Compare your solution with those of others.\
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*(JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell, Java)*
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#### [CodinGame](https://www.codingame.com/)
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**Free** Learn to code and game at the same time.\
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*(C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Bash, C, Clojure, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, ObjectiveC, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, VB.NET)*
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#### [1 Million Women To Tech Summer of Code](https://github.com/1millionwomentotech/toolkitten/tree/master/summer-of-code)
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**Free** programming course material for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels\
*(Python, JavaScript, Data Science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, AR & VR)*
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#### [Wes Bos](https://wesbos.com/courses/)
**Mixed** guided video courses to build products using new technologies\
*(JavaScript, CSS, React, Node.js, GraphQL, Redux)*
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## Advanced
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#### [Paqmind](http://paqmind.com)
**Free** Quiz your knowledge of programming\
*(JavaScript, Node.js, React, functional programming)*
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#### [MIT Courseware](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=computerscience)
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**Free** courses from MIT on advanced computer science topics\
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*(varied and extensive computer science topics, C, C++, ..)*
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#### [EDX](https://www.edx.org/course/subject/computer-science)
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**Free** courses from Harvard, MIT, and other universities\
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*(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)*
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#### [Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/courses?categories=cs-ai,cs-programming,cs-systems,cs-theory,infotech)
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**Free** platform for courses from universities and organizations worldwide\
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*(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)*
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#### [Awesome CS Courses](https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md)
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**Free** university-level courses scoured from around the internet.\
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*(varied and extensive computer science topics, ...)*
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#### Metacademy [Roadmaps](https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/), [Course Guides](https://metacademy.org/course_guides/)
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**Free** graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts\
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*(programming, machine learning)*
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#### [HackerRank](https://www.hackerrank.com/)
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**Free** programming challenges and contests\
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*(artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)*
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#### [HackerEarth](https://www.hackerearth.com/)
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**Free** programming challenges, hackathons and contests\
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*(dynamic programming, artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)*
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#### [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/)
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**Free** mathematical/computer programming problems\
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*(programming, mathematics)*
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#### [CodeSignal](https://codesignal.com/)
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**Free** programming challenges\
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*(Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, PHP and Perl)*
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## License
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To the extent possible under law, [Karl Horky ](https://github.com/karlhorky ) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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## Contributing
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In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing style of this list.