Learn to Program

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

Free community and toolset to learn to create web pages and apps
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)

Codecademy

Free platform for learning to code in web technologies
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP)

Khan Academy's Hour of Code

Free interactive 1-hour course to learn the very basics of web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL)

Treehouse

Commercial platform for courses how to build websites & apps
(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)

Learn CSS Layout

Free tutorial for how to do layout with CSS
(CSS)

Udemy Programming, Development

Freemium marketplace of courses from third party providers. Quality may vary.
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Python, iOS, Android)

Code Avengers

Freemium platform for basic web and app develoment courses
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

learn.shayhowe.com

Free beginner to intermediate guides on web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

HTML Dog

Free beginner and intermediate guides on web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Gibbon

Mixed curated learning tracks for computer programming
(web development, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Haskell, computer science)

Degreed Web Development, 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, 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

Freemium platform for courses about web technologies, iOS development and related tools
(HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Git)

Udacity

Free platform for computer science and web development courses
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data science, Python, computer science topics)

Learn Python the Hard Way

Free (book only) book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming
(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)

Codelearn

Free interactive tutorials for Ruby on Rails and Android
(Ruby, Rails, Android)

Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Free online book covering all stages of creating a Ruby on Rails application
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails)

Lynda.com Developer, Web, IT

Freemium platform for video courses on web development and intermediate programming
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, programming fundamentals, system administration, ...)

Thinkful

Commercial platform for mentored web and mobile development courses from industry experts
(web development, frontend web development, AngularJS, Android, iOS)

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

Free crowdsourced list of videos and courses for learning programming and web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Haskell, Python)

Stanford on iTunes U

Free programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University
(programming, startups, iOS)

PluralSight

Commercial platform for web development courses
(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)

CodeChef Problems

Free intermediate to advanced programming problems
(programming)

CodingBat

Free practice problems in Python and Java
(Python, Java)

Codewars

Free code challenges. Compare your solution with those of others (JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell)

Advanced

MIT Courseware

Free courses from MIT on advanced computer science topics
(varied and extensive computer science topics, C, C++, ..)

Coursera

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

Free university-level courses scoured from around the internet.
(varied and extensive computer science topics, ...)

Metacademy Roadmaps, Course Guides

Free graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts
(programming, machine learning)

HackerRank

Programming challenges with leaderboard. Used by various tech companies to hire engineers.
(various languages and topics, C, C++, Haskell, Bash, ...)