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-# learn-to-program
+# Learn to Program
-Education resources to learn to program
+
+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.
+
+This list aims to be a curated set of high quality educational resources. The cost of the platform is highlighted along with the top technologies covered.
+
+## Beginner
+
+### [Mozilla Webmaker](https://webmaker.org/)
+**Free** community and toolset to learn to create web pages and apps *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)*
+
+### [Codecademy](http://www.codecademy.com/)
+**Free** platform for learning to code in web technologies *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP)*
+
+### [Khan Academy's Hour of Code](https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode)
+**Free** interactive 1-hour course to learn the very basics of web development *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL)*
+
+### [Treehouse](https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans?cid=1178&discount_code=REDDITLEARN100) (<- first month free)
+**Commercial** platform for courses how to build websites & apps *(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)*
+
+### [Learn CSS Layout](http://learnlayout.com/)
+**Free** tutorial for how to do layout with CSS *(CSS)*
+
+### Udemy [Programming](https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=programming), [Development](https://www.udemy.com/courses/Development/)
+**Freemium** marketplace of courses from third party providers. Quality may vary. *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Python, iOS, Android)*
+
+### [Code Avengers](http://www.codeavengers.com/)
+**Freemium** platform for basic web and app develoment courses *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
+
+### [learn.shayhowe.com](http://learn.shayhowe.com/)
+**Free** beginner to intermediate guides on web development *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
+
+### [HTML Dog](http://www.htmldog.com/)
+**Free** beginner and intermediate guides on web development *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*
+
+### [Gibbon](https://gibbon.co/topics/programming)
+**Mixed** curated learning tracks for computer programming *(web development, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Haskell, computer science)*
+
+### Degreed [Web Development](https://degreed.com/learning/web%20development), [Programming](https://degreed.com/learning/programming)
+**Mixed** directory of courses, videos and other learning resources for web development and programming. Quality may vary. *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Rails)*
+
+
+## Intermediate
+
+### Khan Academy [Computer Programming](https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming), [Computer Science](https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science)
+**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)*
+
+### [Code School](https://www.codeschool.com/)
+**Freemium** platform for courses about web technologies, iOS development and related tools *(HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Git)*
+
+### [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/)
+**Free** platform for computer science and web development courses *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data science, Python, computer science topics)*
+
+### [Learn Python the Hard Way](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/)
+**Free** *(book only)* book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming *(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)*
+
+### [Codelearn](http://www.codelearn.org/)
+**Free** interactive tutorials for Ruby on Rails and Android *(Ruby, Rails, Android)*
+
+### [Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial](https://www.railstutorial.org/book)
+**Free** online book covering all stages of creating a Ruby on Rails application *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails)*
+
+### 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)
+**Freemium** platform for video courses on web development and intermediate programming *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, programming fundamentals, system administration, ...)*
+
+### [Thinkful](http://www.thinkful.com/)
+**Commercial** platform for mentored web and mobile development courses from industry experts *(web development, frontend web development, AngularJS, Android, iOS)*
+
+### [exercism.io](http://exercism.io/)
+**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)*
+
+### [University of Reddit](http://ureddit.com/category/23442/computer-science)
+**Free** crowdsourced list of videos and courses for learning programming and web development *(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Haskell, Python)*
+
+### [Stanford on iTunes U](http://itunes.stanford.edu/)
+**Free** programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University *(programming, startups, iOS)*
+
+### [PluralSight](http://www.pluralsight.com/tag/developer?pageSize=48&sort=popular)
+**Commercial** platform for web development courses *(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)*
+
+### [CodeChef Problems](http://www.codechef.com/problems/easy/)
+**Free** intermediate to advanced programming problems *(programming)*
+
+### [CodingBat](http://codingbat.com/)
+**Free** practice problems in Python and Java *(Python, Java)*
+
+
+## Advanced
+
+### [MIT Courseware](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=computerscience)
+**Free** courses from MIT on advanced computer science topics *(varied and extensive computer science topics, C, C++, ..)*
+
+### [Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/courses?categories=cs-ai,cs-programming,cs-systems,cs-theory,infotech)
+**Free** platform for courses from the top universities and organizations worldwide *(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)*
+
+### [prakhar1989/awesome-courses](https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md)
+**Free** university-level courses scoured from around the internet. *(varied and extensive computer science topics, ...)*
+
+### Metacademy [Roadmaps](http://metacademy.org/roadmaps/), [Course Guides](http://metacademy.org/course_guides/)
+**Free** graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts *(programming, machine learning)*