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Why not learn a new skill in computer programming in 2014!, all FREE with Codeacademy.

Codecademy is an education company. But not one in the way you might think. We're committed to building the best learning experience inside and out, making Codecademy the best place for our team to learn, teach, and create the online learning experience of the future.

Education is old. The current public school system in the US dates back to the 19th century and wasn't designed to scale the way it has. Lots of companies are working to "disrupt" education by changing the way things work in the classroom and by bringing the classroom online.

We're not one of those companies. We are rethinking education from the bottom up. The web has rethought nearly everything - commerce, social networking, healthcare, and more. We are building the education the world needs - the first truly net native education. We take more cues from Facebook and Zynga in creating an engaging educational experience than we do from the classroom.

We do not want to open up universities. We want to open up knowledge. Everyone knows something they can teach someone else and we want to help them do it. Our community has created tens of thousands of courses and taken millions of courses. At this point, more than a billion lines of code have been submitted to Codecademy.

Education is broken. Come help us build the education the world deserves.

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AiRcTRL

This is not a bargain, CodeAcademy is always free.

Techno_Toaster

It's certainly a bargain to me. Never heard of code academy until this post.

Thanks op I'll be using it anyway:)

Steviemoyne

Bargain for me too. Starting a software work placement next week and most of this is excellent. Wasn't aware code academy was free wish I had of been.

Greenmachine

These guys are new to me too.

Lawdie

ditto, thank you OP

J_E

Duolingo great for languages. Currently going through German. You really need to read extra online material to get to grips with stuff like grammar but it's a great way to get started and to a conversational level on a language.

www.duolingo.com

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Can you pick what you learn or is it a set course?

Supercell

Harvard also do a free online course starting now which is available to all - Introduction to Computer Science

Well worth a look and you get a real Harvard cert at the end of it, not too shabby on the CV!

Supercell

hare05 wrote: »

Since were talking about programming, if anyone wants something a bit more advanced than codecademy, check out edX CS50. It's. Free graded software development course run by Harvard University.

Should be taking sign ups right now.

See the post above yours :P

hare05

Supercell wrote: »

See the post above yours :P

EEP

DELETED. MUST HIDE SHAME.

lmimmfn

let me be the first to step in and say if youre trying to learn coding you MUST learn source contrrol, its soo simple but i cant believe NO colleges/universities are teaching it, shocking as its the barebones of development.

Example of version control software are:
Git
Subversion(svn)
Clearcase( avoid its old and not opensource )

degsie

lmimmfn wrote: »

let me be the first to step in and say if youre trying to learn coding you MUST learn source contrrol, its soo simple but i cant believe NO colleges/universities are teaching it, shocking as its the barebones of development.

Syntax is of course always important in ANY programming language :P

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Excellent website so far, and great timing. My new years resolution is to learn at least fundamental coding skills. I did a bit of Java in first year college but the work I'm doing at the moment has a lot of python scripting hidden behind a nice friendly interface. I'd love to understand what's going on behind the interface and this website will definitely help.

nitromaster

Didn't know this site existed either, thanks OP! Gonna come in handy. :cool:

Shred

Nice one OP, never heard of it either.

FutureGuy

The single best post I have read on Boards.ie in about a year.

Absolutely eating up this site over the last few hours.

Nemeses2050

Well there's http://www.w3schools.com/ as well, for anyone interested.

djfattony2000

This also has lots of free courses too.

https://www.coursera.org/

Code Academy is great too.

Greenmachine

No Mention yet of "Khan Academy" or "Ted Talks". A sticky listing some of the better online learning resources would be awesome.

ablelocks

Greenmachine wrote: »

No Mention yet of "Khan Academy" or "Ted Talks". A sticky listing some of the better online learning resources would be awesome.

I have a request in for an online sub-forum in edu it but hasn't gone anywhere yet...

thanks to the op too for codeacademy.

ablelocks

the Lifehacker list of free online resources for 2014 has just been posted today....

Steviemoyne

Keep these links coming people. Thanks for putting them up. Planning to learn a few of these since they'll look excellent on a CV.

Rough Sleeper

degsie wrote: »

Syntax is of course always important in ANY programming language :P

None off the boded are syntactical errors; they're spelling and grammar mistakes.

Great thread BTW. A free course that gives you a Harvard Cert? Not to shabby.

Class Central puts all of these classes in one handy site. Posted it last time a thread like this popped up.

Pj!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055654231

Some free courses on this dedicated thread in the Distance Learning forum.

degsie

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

None off the boded are syntactical errors; they're spelling and grammar mistakes.

Ahem...

Rough Sleeper

degsie wrote: »

Ahem...

You could have picked up on the to/too error in the second paragraph as well. That was a real howler.

The point still stands: they're spelling and grammar mistakes. Example a this of is incoherent sentence syntactically an.

CGI_3

Anyone know of anything available for CISCO? There's a few in Youtube, but not really structured.

johnmcdnl

Supercell wrote: »

Harvard also do a free online course starting now which is available to all - Introduction to Computer Science

Well worth a look and you get a real Harvard cert at the end of it, not too shabby on the CV!

Signed up - how could any resist the chance to have a Harvard Certificate

TPD

lmimmfn wrote: »

let me be the first to step in and say if youre trying to learn coding you MUST learn source contrrol, its soo simple but i cant believe NO colleges/universities are teaching it, shocking as its the barebones of development.

Example of version control software are:
Git
Subversion(svn)
Clearcase( avoid its old and not opensource )

I learned all I've needed of source control in the first week or two of a software development job. It's an essential tool but I'd worry about learning to code first.

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CGI_3 wrote: »

Anyone know of anything available for CISCO? There's a few in Youtube, but not really structured.

saw one on hkud