Free Online Programming Lessons

[Mello]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/t...ernet-computer-code-gains-a-following.html?hp

http://www.codecademy.com/
http://www.udacity.com/
http://teamtreehouse.com/

Have fun?

Spoiler

http://www.codecademy.com/profiles/youaremello

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Any free SQL courses?

 

[Architect]

Any free SQL courses?

There was a free Stanford databases class last quarter. Great one too, I learned a lot, much more than mere SQL. Haven't seen anything this quarter.

 

[Oedipus]

Nice stuff.

 

[Words]

How did you find these sites?

 

[Mello]

How did you find these sites?

All pulled directly from the NY times article. ;3

 

[kantor1003]

Awesome! Thread bookmarked.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Thanks

 

[Mello]

No problemo.

 

[Affinity]

Sub'd. Thanks!

 

[Vrecknidj]

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://www.opencontent.org/ocwfinder/

 

[EyeSeeCold]

http://www.codecademy.com/

This website is pretty cool, the lessons are straightforward and understandable. I'm near the end of the Function section and it's starting to get difficult. I just need to practice/repeat more though.

http://www.codecademy.com/profiles/cipherx

 

[Beholder]

I've always wanted to learn a programming language, but never knew which one to start with. Any suggestions? (I know close to nothing about programming)

Edit: I mean, which language(s?) would be the most useful, and for what?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

http://www.codecademy.com/

Codecademy now has:

• JavaScript
• JQuery
• HTML & CSS
• Python
• Ruby (new as of October)

 

[Intellect]

Any suggestions? (I know close to nothing about programming)

Edit: I mean, which language(s?) would be the most useful, and for what?

Here's how I started: HTML -> PHP -> C/C++ and nowadays I pretty much just choose the right tool for the job.

If you have absolutely no programming knowledge, I'd recommend starting with HTML. It's a markup language, so it's very simple. You can probably pick up all the basics in a few hours. From there, you can tackle JavaScript or PHP. Both are web development languages and pretty easy to grasp. With a few weeks of study, you can probably build some very basic web apps with knowledge of those three (HTML/JS/PHP).

A good thing to keep in mind is that there are many different styles of programming and types of languages. Ruby on Rails, for example, is another web development language/framework but it's very different from PHP. If you don't like one language, dont' write off programming altogether — give another language/style a try.

Any free SQL courses?

This is the book I learned web dev from: http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-4th/dp/0672329166

Teaches you PHP and SQL (with the MySQL RDBMS). Honestly, I think it's best to learn SQL in conjunction with another language. You won't get very far learning about it in isolation (unless you already have a foundational knowledge, I guess).

 

[SMO]

I've always wanted to learn a programming language, but never knew which one to start with. Any suggestions? (I know close to nothing about programming)

Edit: I mean, which language(s?) would be the most useful, and for what?

I just started learning programming (with no prior knowledge of it), I have been using a combination of codeacademy.com and udacity.com, I tried to just jump into Java but that didn't work out for me. Going through the courses, I think they give you a basic overview of several languages so you can then decide which to delve deeper into.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org

 

[EyeSeeCold]

All of these great sites and none of them have anything for Law.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Codecademy now has:

• JavaScript
• JQuery
• HTML & CSS
• Python
• Ruby (new as of October)

They're adding PHP to the list.