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"Learn to Code for Free With These 10 Online Resources \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Code/Racer\n\n\nMade by the team at Treehouse, Code/Racer is an online racing game that forces you to learn to code quickly to get ahead on the race track. Beyond this racing game, Treehouse boasts more than 650 instructional videos; as you complete courses, earn badges for your accomplishments.\nScreenshot courtesy of Code/Racer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. MIT OpenCourseWare\n\n\nMIT has opened all of its course content to web audiences, so anyone, anywhere can learn from one of the top American research institutions. Think about it: An MIT education without the student loans or cut-throat application? Not too shabby.\nScreenshot courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Udacity\n\n\nUdacity believes today's higher education system is broken. Education is no longer something that happens once in a lifetime, but rather is a lifelong experience. That's why it has ported loads of computer science, math and physics courses online.\nScreenshot courtesy of Udacity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Mozilla Developer Network\n\n\nThe Mozilla Developer Network is a resource-rich collection of documents about web development, made for anyone, from expert programmers to students just starting out. MDN is a wiki, meaning anyone can edit its pages with corrections and updates.\nScreenshot courtesy of Mozilla Developer Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. The CodePlayer\n\n\nOn The CodePlayer, watch interactive presentations that explain how people built things from scratch. Once you become a coding pro, you can add your own presentations to teach others what you know.\nScreenshot courtesy of The CodePlayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Coursera\n\n\nOnline education giant Coursera brings courses from dozens of top universities online, and lets anyone take them for free. Coursera classes are now available in five languages, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese, and are taught by professors from 62 universities.\nScreenshot courtesy of Coursera\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Codeacademy\n\n\nUnlike some of these other online education platforms, Codeacademy focuses solely on teaching coding. You can choose from courses grouped into eight tracks: APIs, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, web fundamentals, or combine languages into projects. \nScreenshot courtesy of Codeacademy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Khan Academy\n\n\nKhan Academy brings millions of students from around the world together to learn all sorts of digital skills, from coding to calculus to computer science theory. This means you can become an expert coder and an expert mathematician in the same place.\nScreenshot courtesy of KhanAcademy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Learn Python the Hard Way\n\n\nLearn Python the Hard Way offers free PDFs, though, if you want to take the video version of the course, you'll need to fork up $29.\nWhat does learning the \"Hard Way\" mean? The number-one rule is that you can't copy-paste; you must type out each of the lessons in order to teach your hands the language.\nScreenshot courtesy of Learn Python the Hard Way\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. HTML5 Rocks\n\n\nHTML5 Rocks is a one-stop guide to learning HTML5, written by tons of contributors who work for Google, Adobe and a bunch of other places. As an HTML5 Rocks student, you'll learn from slides, presentations and videos.\nScreenshot courtesy of HTML5 Rocks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true: Understanding how to code is the new literacy. \nTake Zuck and Gates' advice \u2014 learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs and opportunities. But you're probably thinking, where do I even begin? Will code classes drain my money and time? \nSEE ALSO: 9 Apps Built by Self-Taught Coders\n\nFortunately for you, there are loads of ways to learn coding online, without paying a thing.\nWe've rounded up 10 places on the web that teach coding through video tutorials, games and quizzes. Try out one or two and let us know what you think.\nHomepage image courtesy of iStockphoto, bmcent1"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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