# Learn to Program [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
#### Foundation in Web Development

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 primary topics covered.

## Beginner

#### [Mozilla Webmaker](https://webmaker.org/)
**Free** community and toolset to learn to create web pages and apps\
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)*

#### [Codecademy](https://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)
**Commercial** platform for courses how to build websites & apps\
*(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)*

#### [Learn CSS Layout](https://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](https://www.codeavengers.com/)
**Freemium** platform for basic web and app develoment courses\
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*

#### [learn.shayhowe.com](https://learn.shayhowe.com/)
**Free** beginner to intermediate guides on web development\
*(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)*

#### [HTML Dog](https://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)*

#### [Platzi](https://courses.platzi.com/)
**Free** Platform for classes on Design, Marketing, Startup and Code. Learn the future of the web.\
*(RethinkDB, SailsJs, NodeJS, Git, Startup Class, etc)*

#### [Free Code Camp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)
**Free** Learn to code and help nonprofits. An open source community of people who learn to code and help nonprofits.\
*(HTML, CSS, Javascript, Databases, Git & GitHub, Node.js, React.js, D3.js)*

#### [Vertabelo Academy](https://academy.vertabelo.com/)
**Free** SQL courses with interactive exercises and quizzes\
*(SQL, database concepts)*

#### [GitHub Learning Lab](https://lab.github.com/)
**Free** Self paced, interactive projects to learn Git and GitHub. Created and maintained by GitHub's training team.\
*(Git, GitHub)*

#### [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)*

#### [Programming Historian](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/)
**Free** Peer reviewed introductory courses for digital humanists.\
*(Python, R, Unity, QGIS, HTML, Regular Expressions)*

#### [Software Carpentry](https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/)
**Free** Foundational coding and data science skills for researchers.\
*(Python, R, OpenRefine, Unix Shell, Git)*

#### [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)*

## 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)*

#### [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](https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/)
**Free** *(book only)* book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming\
*(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)*

#### [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](https://www.lynda.com/Developer-training-tutorials/50-0.html), [Web](https://www.lynda.com/Web-training-tutorials/88-0.html), [IT](https://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](https://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](https://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](https://itunes.stanford.edu/)
**Free** programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University\
*(programming, startups, iOS)*

#### [PluralSight](https://www.pluralsight.com/tag/developer?pageSize=48&sort=popular)
**Commercial** platform for web development courses\
*(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)*

#### [CodeChef Problems](https://www.codechef.com/problems/easy/)
**Free** intermediate to advanced programming problems\
*(programming)*

#### [CodingBat](https://codingbat.com/)
**Free** practice problems in Python and Java\
*(Python, Java)*

#### [Codewars](https://www.codewars.com/)
**Free** code challenges. Compare your solution with those of others.\
*(JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell, Java)*

#### [CodinGame](https://www.codingame.com/)
**Free** Learn to code and game at the same time.\
*(C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Bash, C, Clojure, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, ObjectiveC, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, VB.NET)*

#### [1 Million Women To Tech Summer of Code](https://github.com/1millionwomentotech/toolkitten/tree/master/summer-of-code)
**Free** programming course material for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels\
*(Python, JavaScript, Data Science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, AR & VR)*

## Advanced

#### [MIT Courseware](https://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++, ..)*

#### [EDX](https://www.edx.org/course/subject/computer-science)
**Free** courses from Harvard, MIT, and other universities\
*(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)*

#### [Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/courses?categories=cs-ai,cs-programming,cs-systems,cs-theory,infotech)
**Free** platform for courses from 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](https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/), [Course Guides](https://metacademy.org/course_guides/)
**Free** graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts\
*(programming, machine learning)*

#### [HackerRank](https://www.hackerrank.com/)
**Free** programming challenges and contests\
*(artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)*

#### [HackerEarth](https://www.hackerearth.com/)
**Free** programming challenges, hackathons and contests\
*(dynamic programming,artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)*

#### [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/)
**Free** mathematical/computer programming problems\
*(programming, mathematics)*

#### [CodeSignal](https://codesignal.com/)
**Free** programming challenges\
*(Java, C++, Python, Javascript, Ruby, C#, PHP and Perl)*

## 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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