The Best Websites to Learn Coding Online

The Learn to Code movement has picked up momentum worldwide and that is actually a good thing as even basic programming skills can have a major impact. If you can teach yourself how to write code, you gain a competitive edge over your peers, you can think more algorithmically and thus can tackle problems more efficiently.

Don’t just download the latest app, help re-design it. Don’t just play on your phone, program it. — Obama.

There’s no reason why shouldn’t know the basics of coding. You can automate tasks, you can program your Excel sheets, improve workflows, you can extract data from websites and accomplish so much more with code. You may not be in the business of writing software programs but knowing the basics of coding will help you communicate more effectively with developers.

Gone are the days when you had to enroll in expensive computer training classes as now exist a plethora of web-based courses that will help you learn programming at your own pace in the comfort of your web browser.

The Best Sites to Learn Programming

If you are ready to take the plunge, here are some of the best websites that offer courses in a variety of programming languages for free. Just click on the online course to visit their website.

	Online Courses & Screencasts
JavaScript	Code Academy, Learn Street, Code Combat, Code Avengers
HTML & CSS	Code Academy, Don’t Fear The Internet, Tutsplus,Learn Layout, A to Z CSS,Dash, Web Accessibility,The Hello World, Khan Academy, HTML5 from Scratch
jQuery	Code Academy, Tutsplus,Code School
Python	Code Academy, Google,Learn Street, Python Tutor,IHeartPY
Ruby & Ruby on Rails	Code Academy,TryRubyCode Learn, Railscasts, Rubymonk,Learn Street
PHP	Code Academy
Google Apps Script	Getting Started, Office Hours,  Google Scripts Examples, Learning Apps Script
WordPress	Treehouse, WordPress TV
Linux & Shell Scripting	Stanford.edu, Explain Shell
Node.js	Nodetuts, Node School
Angular JS	Code School, Egg Head, Learn Angular
Git (version control)	Code School, Git Immersion, GitHub Training, Udacity
Objective-C (iOS & Mac)	Code School, Stanford, iTunesU
Chrome Dev Tools	Code School, Dev Tools Secret,  Chrome Dev Tools Tutorial, Udacity, Building Browser Apps
Go Language	Golang.org, GopherCasts
Java	Learn Java, Coding Bat,Java Udemy,  Learneroo
Android App Development	Udacity (Google Developers), Coursera, The New Boston, Google University, App Development Essentials, Code Learn, App Inventor (Visual)
D3 (data visualization)	Data Visualization for the Web, Dashing D3, D3 Tips & Tricks
SQL (Databases)	SQL Zoo, SQL @Stanford, Essential SQL, SQL for Nerds, Intro to SQL,  SQL Bolt, PHP & MySQL
Everything Else	Udacity, edX.org, Coursera, Udemy$, Lynda$,Pluralsight$, Treehouse$, Open Consortium, One Month Rails$

Teaching Kids to Code

If there are kids in the family, you should download either Tynker(Android/iOS) or the Hopscotch app for iPad and they can learn the basics of programming through games and puzzles.

There’s also Scratch, an MIT project that allows kids to program their own stories and games visually. Scratch is available as a web app or you can download it on your Mac/Windows/Linux computer for offline use.Microsoft TouchDevelop, Blockly and Alice are some other web apps that will introduce the concepts of computer progamming to your children.

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