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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 cost of the platform is highlighted along with the primary topics covered.
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## Beginner
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#### [Vertabelo Academy](https://academy.vertabelo.com/)
**Free** SQL courses with interactive exercises and quizes
*(SQL, database concepts)*
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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
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)*
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#### [Codecademy](http://www.codecademy.com/)
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**Free** platform for learning to code in web technologies
*(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
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL)*
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#### [Treehouse](https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans?cid=1178&discount_code=REDDITLEARN100)
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**Commercial** platform for courses how to build websites & apps
*(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)*
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#### [Learn CSS Layout](http://learnlayout.com/)
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**Free** tutorial for how to do layout with CSS
*(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.
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Python, iOS, Android)*
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#### [Code Avengers](http://www.codeavengers.com/)
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**Freemium** platform for basic web and app develoment courses
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### [learn.shayhowe.com](http://learn.shayhowe.com/)
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**Free** beginner to intermediate guides on web development
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### [HTML Dog](http://www.htmldog.com/)
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**Free** beginner and intermediate guides on web development
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
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#### [Gibbon](https://gibbon.co/topics/programming)
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**Mixed** curated learning tracks for computer programming
*(web development, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Haskell, computer science)*
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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.
*(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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## 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
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, algorithms, cryptography)*
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#### [Code School](https://www.codeschool.com/)
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**Freemium** platform for courses about web technologies, iOS development and related tools
*(HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Git)*
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#### [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/)
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**Free** platform for computer science and web development courses
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data science, Python, computer science topics)*
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#### [Learn Python the Hard Way](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/)
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**Free** *(book only)* book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming
*(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)*
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#### [Codelearn](http://www.codelearn.org/)
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**Free** interactive tutorials for Ruby on Rails and Android
*(Ruby, Rails, Android)*
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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
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails)*
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#### Lynda.com [Developer](http://www.lynda.com/Developer-training-tutorials/50-0.html), [Web](http://www.lynda.com/Web-training-tutorials/88-0.html), [IT](http://www.lynda.com/IT-training-tutorials/2057-0.html)
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**Freemium** platform for video courses on web development and intermediate programming
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, programming fundamentals, system administration, ...)*
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#### [Thinkful](http://www.thinkful.com/)
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**Commercial** platform for mentored web and mobile development courses from industry experts
*(web development, frontend web development, AngularJS, Android, iOS)*
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#### [exercism.io](http://exercism.io/)
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**Free** crowdsourced mentorship platform of programming exercises and code reviews
*(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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#### [University of Reddit](http://ureddit.com/category/23442/computer-science)
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**Free** crowdsourced list of videos and courses for learning programming and web development
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Haskell, Python)*
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#### [Stanford on iTunes U](http://itunes.stanford.edu/)
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**Free** programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University
*(programming, startups, iOS)*
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#### [PluralSight](http://www.pluralsight.com/tag/developer?pageSize=48&sort=popular)
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**Commercial** platform for web development courses
*(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)*
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#### [CodeChef Problems](http://www.codechef.com/problems/easy/)
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**Free** intermediate to advanced programming problems
*(programming)*
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#### [CodingBat](http://codingbat.com/)
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**Free** practice problems in Python and Java
*(Python, Java)*
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#### [Codewars](http://www.codewars.com/)
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**Free** code challenges. Compare your solution with those of others.
*(JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell, Java)*
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## Advanced
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#### [MIT Courseware](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=computerscience)
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**Free** courses from MIT on advanced computer science topics
*(varied and extensive computer science topics, C, C++, ..)*
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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 the top universities and organizations worldwide
*(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)*
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#### [prakhar1989/awesome-courses](https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md)
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**Free** university-level courses scoured from around the internet.
*(varied and extensive computer science topics, ...)*
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#### Metacademy [Roadmaps](http://metacademy.org/roadmaps/), [Course Guides](http://metacademy.org/course_guides/)
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**Free** graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts
*(programming, machine learning)*
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#### [HackerRank](https://www.hackerrank.com/)
**Free** programming challenges and contests
*(artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)*
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## License
[![CC0](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing style of this list.