The Best Free Code Tutorials

What follows is a list of the best free code tutorials in my opinion. I’m proposing only the programming tutorials that I found taught me the fastest and the ones I enjoyed participating in.

best free code tutorials

There are many slow, boring video series I’ve gone through in the hopes of learning to program, but what follows are the programs that I found to teach me the subject quickly and were fun to complete.

Overall Best Free Code Courses

  1. Free Code Camp – http://freecodecamp.com/ – Free Code Camp is an open source, game-like software course that teaches everything from HTML to computer science ideas like
  2. CodeFights – https://codefights.com/ – I would suggest this is more of an intermediate way of learning. Once you get good with algorithms, this might be a great way to get on the radar of interesting software engineering companies.
  3. Codecademy – http://codecademy.com/ – These exercises are the best for getting an initial introduction to any technologies covered on their platform. Also, if I want to revamp some skills quickly before approaching a new project, bashing through Codecademy is a great way for me to freshen up on skills.

Best Specific Code Technologies

JavaScript

JavaScript is a very important language for the internet. If you want to have a good idea of what JavaScript looks like when navigating the web, go to Chrome>Preferences>Content Settings and shift the “Allowed” tab off. Once you’ve turned JavaScript off, go to your favorite websites and see the difference.

NPM

What is NPM? Node Package Manager is a protocol for using JavaScript to build applications. At this point, all I know is that it empowers the programmer to use the terminal to build web applications in JavaScript.

Regular Expressions (RegEx)

What is a regular expression? A RegularExpression is a line of text formatted to get you a result. For example, if you wanted to find all the dollar amounts from a tremendous text document, you can use a regular expression to pull out all the numerical numbers after a “$” symbol.

jQuery

What is jQuery? jQuery is a library of JavaScript which makes using JavaScript easier on web pages. For example, you write a HTML search box into a webpage and you want to process the input from the user to do something. You could use jQuery to take the user information and put it into a JavaScript algorithm.

Learn.jQuery.com – http://try.jquery.com/

SQL

What is SQL? SQL is an acronym for Structured Query Language. Pronounce it, sea quell, rather than S.Q.L.  This is a database language for retrieving data and creating data. Note: a basic understanding of RegularExpressions will help before starting the SQL tutorials.

Expample Format
SELECT <something>
FROM <dataset>
WHERE <attributes you care about>

SQL Bolt – https://sqlbolt.com/

Best Free Code Tutorials – Parting Words

I’m no expert at this. In 2016 I spent a year deep diving into software engineering, but I ran into a wall and decided to build a school bus home. That home took me about 9 months to build so I fell off the programming horse during the months from March to November of 2017.

For me, there is still a haze obscuring my path to understanding software engineering. Though the haze has lifted consistently during my studies, I still feel considerably lost in it. The above suggestions were from the tutorials that cleared the haze out the fastest. I’m sure it’s not a complete list, but it is the list of technologies that helped me the most.

Please add any suggestions in the comments below. I would really appreciate learning faster ways to blow the haze away.

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