20 Best Places to Learn Programming for FREE in 2024
These are the best websites, platforms, and online training schools where you can learn programming and software development for free.
Hello there, if you want to learn programming, software development, software engineering, and coding by yourself and looking for awesome free resources like websites, coding platforms, courses, books etc then you have come to the right place.
In the past, I have shared best places to learn Java, Python, SQL, Data Science, Git, and React.js and In this article, I am going to share 20 websites you can use to learn the code for free from the comfort of your office and home.
The list include websites with free courses and tutorials as well as online learning platforms where you can type code, see output without installing any software.
20 Best Places to learn Programming and Coding for FREE
Here is a list of 20 best places and online platforms to learn programming, coding, Software development and other essential tools like Git, Ruby, Python for FREE online in 2024.
1. udemy.com
One of the best places for online learning. you will get online courses in all the latest technology and programming language like Java, Spring, Data Structure and Algorithms, Selenium, REST, etc. It provides both free and paid resources.
Here is a couple of useful free course to learn some of the interesting technologies:
- Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners (link)
- Easy to Advanced Data Structures (link)
- Introduction To Python Programming (link)
- Advanced and Object-Oriented JavaScript and ES6 (link)
The paid resources are also very cheap and you can purchase on just $9.99 during their flash sale, which happens quite often. It’s full of some of the great teachers like Colt_Steele, Rob Percival, Stephen Grider, Josh Portilla, John Purcell, etc.
2. Educative.io
This is a great website to learn to program. Founded by Fahim ul Haq, the Educative highly interactive platform features some of the most popular technologies like JavaScript, Java, Kubernetes, Python and more. Whether you want to learn a new technology or you’re preparing for interviews, this is a good website to check out.
All the courses feature in-browser coding environments, meaning there’s no setup required. They’re complete with quizzes and challenges to further test your understanding of the material.
I first come to know about them when I join their popular courses like Grokking the System Design Interview and Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions and I was really impressed with the quality and the idea of text-based interactive courses. You don’t need to skip and its much faster than traditional online courses.
They also have a lot of best free Programming courses which I encourage you to check out:
- Learn Python from Scratch
- Learn Java from Scratch
- Learn C++ from Scratch
- Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from Scratch
And, if you find their paid courses useful, you can save a lot of money by going for Educative subscription than buying individual courses. The subscription costs $18 (50% discount now) per month, which is both affordable and something every programmer can invest in their learning.
3. Coursera
This is another awesome website to learn online. It’ founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller and it offers courses, specializations, and online degrees.
The best part of Coursera is that it offers online courses from Universities like Stanford, University of London, University of Michigan, Colorado, Imperial College of London and many more.
It provides both free and paid online courses and specialization. Here is a list of best free programming courses from Coursera:
- Algorithms Part I and Part 2 by Robert Sedgewick [FREE]
- Machine Learning by Andrew Ng
- Agile with Atlassian Jira [FREE]
- Introduction to User Experience Design [FREE]
- The Structured Query Language (SQL) [FREE]
- Cybersecurity for Everyone [FREE]
Coursera also provides you Certification, which you can showcase in your LinkedIn profile, but you need to pay for it, for example Google’s IT support Certifications and Python for Everybody specialization are quite popular to start career in IT support and Python.
And, if you find Coursera courses useful, which they are because they are created by reputed companies like Google, IBM, Amazon, and best universities around the world, I suggest you join the Coursera Plus, a subscription plan from Coursera
This single subscription gives you unlimited access to their most popular courses, specialization, professional certificate, and guided projects. It cost around $399/year but its complete worth of your money as you get unlimited certificates.
4. freecodecamp.org
This is one of the most awesome community websites which will help you to learn to code for free, build real-world projects and get a job as a developer.
It has a massive collection of interactive tutorials and exercises to learn JavaScript, Data Structure and Algorithms, Frontend Development and so on.
Founded by Quincy Larson, this is a really awesome place to start your coding journey. They even have a big Facebook group (freecodecampearth) where you can ask questions and share your learning experience.
5. pluralsight.com
One of the best websites to learn any technology or IT courses like programming language like Java, Web development framework like Spring Framework, Hibernate, etc.
It’s also now acquired CodeSchool which earlier allows you to learn web technologies by doing it. I use this website to learn a lot of cool stuff in no time.
By the way, you would need a Pluralsight membership to join this course, which costs around $29 per month or $299 per year (14% discount). If you don’t have this plan, I highly recommend joining as it boosts your learning and as a programmer, you always need to learn new things.
Alternatively, you can also use their 10-day-free-trial to watch this course for FREE.
6. try.github.io
A fantastic website to learn Git in 15 minutes. The best part of this website is that it is a meta website which means it contains some of the most useful resources to learn Git online like learn Git branching which will teach you Git commands right from your web browser.
It will not only help you to understand basic git commands but challenging git concepts like a branch, merge, revert, cherry-pick, rebase, etc.
There is another awesome resource, Visualizing Git which will help you explore how Git commands affect the structure of a repository within your web browser with a free explore mode, and some constructed scenarios.
7. onemonth.com
This is a great site to Learn to code and build web applications in one month. One Month is not exactly a free website though, you need to buy a bootcamp style course.
The site has courses to learn Python, Ruby, and JavaScript in 30 days and they teach in a bootcamp style which makes it a very effective learning place.
Btw, One Month also have a free trial! and a handful of free courses like the Command Line course and they also have free Learn to Code with One Month Podcast coming soon.
8. codecademy.com [Free Interactive Courses]
Interactive tutorials to learn some of the most popular technologies like JavaScript, Java, Linux for free. It also has some paid courses to learn advanced concepts in Python, Java, and JavaScript.
Btw, this is one of the first websites which brought interactive learning into the picture. It’s JavaScript course is probably the most popular course to learn javascript online.
9. codingbat.com
Another good site to learn to code contains a lot of free programming exercises to build the coding sense in both Python and Java.
10. code.org
The perfect website to start learning coding and basics of computer science. My kids use this website to learn to code by playing with the Minecraft game
11. code4startup.com
A great website to learn how to code by building real companies and real project by Leo Trieu.
It’s one of the best places to learn Web Development from scratch by building 4 real Online Businesses in 3 Months like Airbnb, Uber, etc. No experience needed.
It also has a lot of free courses like:
1. ReactJS for Newbies in just 1 hour
2. Learn Ruby on Rails, Heroku and Wistia APIs
If you like project-based learning then you will love this site.
12. codeabbey.com
Another awesome website with lots of programming exercises to learn to code and improve your coding skills in any programming language.
13. sqlzoo.net
There is no doubt that SQL is one of the must-have skills for any programmer of IT professionals and unfortunately there are very few websites or free courses where you can learn SQL.
This is one the best place to learn SQL for beginners and improve your SQL query skills if you already know fundamentals.
It provides interactive SQL tutorials complete with quizzes, perfect to improve your SQL query skills
14. Git Immersion
This is one of the best websites to learn Git and GitHub, one of the must-have skills for today’s programmers. It provides a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
It’s one of the best courses to learn Git and written by the late, great Jim Weirich.
The aliases suggested in this course can improve your productivity a lot if you include them in your .bashrc and .gitconfig.
15. Learn Git branching
Branching and merging are some of the tough concepts to master in any source control tool like SVN, CVS, and it’s no different in Git but not anymore. This interactive website will teach you merging and branching in git like none others.
The “Learn Git Branching” is one of the most visual and interactive ways to learn Git on the internet. There are a lot of challenging exercises with exciting levels, given step-by-step demonstrations of powerful features, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way.
16. codecombat.com
You can play a game and learn to code in Python and Javascript. One of the best interactive and fun sides of learning online.
17. tryhaskell.org
Learn Haskell with free interactive lessons.
18. thinkful.com
A different kind of website where you can choose a course and get assigned a mentor.
19. rubymonk.com
Free interactive tutorials to help you discover Ruby idioms in your browser. The site has separate courses for beginner, intermediate, and expert Ruby developers to further hone their knowledge of Ruby programming language.
20. learnpython.org
A great website to learn the basics of Python. One of the most popular programming languages of this decade which allows you to do a lot of stuff from simply automating trivial stuff to developing websites and now used in Machine learning and Data Science. If you need more reasons to learn Python, see this article.
That’s all about some of the best websites to learn how to code for free. These websites are great resources to learn a programming language like Python and Java, evergreen technology like SQL, operating systems like Linux, Web development frameworks like Flask, React, and Ruby On Rails, Functional programming language like Haskell, learn to build a website and several other types of free courses.
Other Useful Free Resources for Programmers
- Free Courses to Learn SQL
- Free Courses to Learn Python
- Free Courses to Learn Algorithms
- Free Courses to Learn C++
- Free Courses to Learn Linux
- Free Courses to Learn Blockchain
- Free Courses to Learn Web Development
- Free Courses to Learn JavaScript
- Free Courses to Learn Angular
- Free Courses to Learn React JS
- Free Courses to Learn OOP
- Free Courses to Learn Java
- Free Courses to Learn HTML and CSS
- Free Courses to Learn Data Structure and Algorithms
- Best Courses to Learn Python
- Best Courses to Learn AWS
- Best Courses to Learn Google Cloud
- Best Courses to Learn Microsoft Azure
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