Links

Jan 2nd, 2015 12:46 am

Some useful links grouped by topic (I guess)

This is intended to be a useful list for people who are interested in learning programming with free resources. It is expanding with time.

Free Online Full Stack Web Dev Courses

Full stack web dev is fairly big topic, commonly tought not in one course, but in many. At the moment, I know only two sites that provide a full curriculum from beginner to employable:

Free Code Camp I am doing this one at the moment (fall 2015).
The Odin Project

There are also some programmes from MOOC providers that claim to cover the whole spektrum of full stack web development. They are usually composed out of some smaller courses. I do not know them very well and provide only a list of those that I find. If I know more about one of them, I will probably write something about it.

Full Stack Web Development Specialization from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. They understand the full stack to also include (hybrid) mobile applications. All HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
Ruby on Rails Web Development Specialization by the John Hopkins University covers the full stack with HTML/CSS/JS (with Angular as a front end framework) in the front and Ruby on Rails in the back end. The front end courses can also be studied independent of the back end courses.
Responsive Website Development and Design Specialization by the University of London uses JavaScript for front and back end and uses meteor.js as a framework.
Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree by Amazon Web Sevices, Github, AT&T and Google.

All of these are “Specializations”(Coursera) or “Nanodegrees”(Udacity), which require some payment, but the courses that are part of them are mostly also available in a free version.

JavaScript

JSbooks - free javascript books

Python

Learn Python The Hard Way
Learn to Program and Analyze Data with Python) a specialization on coursera.org. The teacher is Charles Severance from the University of Michigan (mostly called Dr. Chuck online).