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9 Free Programming Courses by Harvard, MIT, IBM, Google, and Microsoft
Get certified for the price of your groceries!
A traditional degree can be costly, especially if you’re thinking about a career change or don’t want to rack up a large student loan. While community colleges and local institutions tend to be much lower in cost, you might be unsure about such a long-term commitment or have family-related logistics to coordinate. Or maybe you just want to formally upgrade your skills without taking three years off.
Here are nine courses where you can learn coding for free. The best part is that you can also get certified by ivy league institutes or industry leaders like Google, AWS, Microsoft, and IBM.
For the courses listed here, learning the content and completing the associated materials is often free but getting the accreditation for it can cost a little, depending on the provider and institution.
1. Computer Science for Web Programming
Course by HarvardX.
This certificate contains one course that’s broken up into two parts. Both parts are free. The price of a verified certificate is about the same as a week’s worth of groceries for one person, so it’s not too bad.
