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UPDATE: A Freebie's Resource List (Mostly Related to Programming)
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author: foo-dogsquared
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categories: freebies
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tags: [freebies, others]
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updatedOn: Dec 4, 2018
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updatedOn: Dec 20, 2018
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This is a free resource list that gradually grew over the past few months. Admittedly, I don't
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- [Useful websites for programmers (by *sdmg15* on GitHub)](https://github.com/sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit/) — also here's [an mirror article by *Sahil Rajput* on dev.to](https://dev.to/sahilrajput/useful-websites-for-programmers-36k#coding-practice-for-beginners)
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- [Web Dev't Study Resources (by *dargaCode* on GitHub)](https://github.com/dargaCode/WebDevStudyResources)
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## Online Education
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## Online Education Resources
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- [Adobe Education Exchange](https://edex.adobe.com/en/professional-development/courses) — free courses offered by Adobe and its community
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- [Brilliant](https://brilliant.org) — kind of like those MOOC but they teach you through solving problems
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- [Codecademy](https://www.codecademy.com/)
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- [Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources](https://www.cccoer.org/) — you can find it [here](https://www.cccoer.org/learn/find-oer/) for the most part if you want the open educational resources (OER)
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- [Coursera](https://coursera.org) — **(recommended)**
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- [CS50 Course by Harvard University](http://cs50.harvard.edu/) — **(very much recommended)**; a very good introductory course on computer science in general, just take it easy and follow the schedule then you'll be fine; I also recommend to take it with friends or a study group too, much easier unlike the way I took 😥, but still doable with solo
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- [edX](https://edx.org) — **(recommended)**
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- [fast.ai](http://www.fast.ai/) — free courses on machine learning, ooooh yeah
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- [freeCodeCamp](https://freecodecamp.org) — **(recommended)**; project-based curriculum for web development
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- [IXL](https://www.ixl.com/) — an educational resource and learning site on K-12 curriculum
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- [Khan Academy](https://khanacademy.org) — **(recommended)**; there are also other topics outside of programming (i.e. mathematics, physics)
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- [Learn X in Y Minutes](https://learnxinyminutes.com) — a community-created repository of summaries for you to learn the X programming languages
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- [LinkedIn Learning](https://learning.linkedin.com/) — eLearning platform of LinkedIn
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- [Microsoft Virtual Academy](https://mva.microsoft.com/) — yup, Microsoft has their own learning platform
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- [MIT OpenCourseWare](https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm) — **(recommended)**; contains courses from a lot of subjects; you also might want to check out their [OCW Scholar Courses](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/) wherein they are essentially more in-depth versions of the usual courses
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- [MongoDB University](https://university.mongodb.com/) — official courses from MongoDB
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- [The Odin Project](https://www.theodinproject.com/) — similar approach to freeCodeCamp
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- [Online Stanford Courses](https://online.stanford.edu/courses)
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- [Open Educational Resources](https://www.oercommons.org/) — self-explanatory as to what their content is about
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- [Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/courses)
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- [Scrimba](https://scrimba.com/) — **(recommended)**; videos with interactive code
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- [Siyavula](https://everythingmaths.co.za/) — mathematics- and science-focused open educational resources
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- [SkillShare](https://www.skillshare.com/) — almost like Udemy, almost like Udemy
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- [Teach Engineering](https://www.teachengineering.org/) — well, it's a educational resources site containing engineering stuff
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- [The Odin Project](https://www.theodinproject.com/) — similar approach to freeCodeCamp
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- [Tutorials Point](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm) — **(recommended)**; a good overview on a bunch of programming languages
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- [TutPlus](https://tutsplus.com/) — a bunch of tutorials and courses
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- [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/) —most, if not all courses are focused on technology
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- [Udemy](https://udemy.com) — HINT: they are discounted for almost all-year round; I also recommend to only look out for the top courses since there's a lot of cluttering stuff in there
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- [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/)
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- [Wolfram MathWorld](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/)
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## Academics-focused Sites
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- [Academia.edu](https://www.academia.edu/)
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- [Free Programming Books](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books) — **(recommended)**; a GitHub repo by the E-Book Foundation
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- [Free Science Books](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books) — another GitHub repo by the E-Book Foundation
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- [Green Tea Press](https://greenteapress.com/wp/) — free computer science-related ebooks
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- [How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition (HTML version)](https://htdp.org/)
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- [Introduction to Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition (2017, Lee and Seshia)](https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/books/leeseshia/download.html)
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- [Math Wiki](https://math.wikia.com/wiki/Math_Wiki) — well, it is structured like a textbook and it is said that the Math Wiki is a textbook so there's that
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- [MIT Press Open](https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-open) — yes, free and open access books from MIT Press
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- [Notes for Professionals](http://book.goalkicker.com/) — **(very much recommended)**; made by folks at Stack Overflow from the Stack Overflow documentation for variety of languages and despite the title, it is quite helpful for beginners like me, as well; also, it is frequently updated like once per week
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- [OpenStax](https://openstax.org/) — **(very much recommended in sciences)**; a library of open-licensed expert-curated college textbook and resources
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- [OpenStax CNX](https://cnx.org/) — a database of open educational resources
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- [Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/)
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- [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks) — **(recommended)**; same as OpenStax
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- [Open SUNY Textbooks](https://textbooks.opensuny.org/)
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- [Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture](https://divakarvi.github.io/bk-spca/spca.html)
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- [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition (HTML version)](https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/) — unofficial (and prettier) version of [one of MIT's famous programming book (that can also be found online)](https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html)
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- [The Feynman's Lectures on Physics](http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/)
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- [WikiToLearn](https://www.wikitolearn.org/)
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- [GeeksforGeeks](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/) — **(recommended)**; a computer science portal (for geeks)
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- [Medium](https://medium.com/)
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- [Preadr](https://preadr.com/) — an article link collector collecting articles related to your configured interests
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- [Scratch A Pixel](http://scratchapixel.com/) — a list of articles on computer graphics
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- [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/) — if you want to learn random things
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## Communities
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stuff and I really like psychological stuff so that's why it's here
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## Blogs
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- ### Learning
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- [Cal Newport](https://calnewport.com/)
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- [College Info Geek](https://collegeinfogeek.com/)
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- [Scott Young](https://scotthyoung.com/) — a blog that mainly focuses on learning
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- ### Programming
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- [Coding Horror](https://blog.codinghorror.com/)
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- [CSS Tricks](https://css-tricks.com/) — a blog that focuses on front-end development
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- [Derek Sivers](https://sivers.org/) — a blog from a guy who had a lot of things to say on a lot of topics
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- [Flavio Copes](https://flaviocopes.com/) — another blog that focuses on front-end development
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- [Jeremy Kun](https://jeremykun.com/) — a programmer with a focus on mathematics
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- [Joel On Software](https://www.joelonsoftware.com) — a software-related blog from Joel Spolsky, the CEO from Stack Overflow
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- [Jon Skeet's Coding Blog](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/) — Jon Skeet's blog; \* insert Jon Skeet fact here \*
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- [Joshua Pullen](https://joshuapullen.com/blog/)
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- [Mozilla Hacks](http://hacks.mozilla.org/) — mainly focuses on web development progress
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- [Scott Logic](https://blog.scottlogic.com/) — it's a blog that focuses on a broad spectrum of stuff
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- [Scott Young](https://scotthyoung.com/) — a blog that mainly focuses on learning
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- [webapplog](https://webapplog.com/) — mainly focuses on Node.js
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- [Wes Bos](https://wesbos.com/blog/) — creator of several courses and some helpful posts along the way
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- [Node Weekly](http://nodeweekly.com/)
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- [Official Node.js Weekly Newsletter](https://newsletter.nodejs.org/)
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- [Postanly](https://postanly.ongoodbits.com/) — a weekly digest of productivity life articles
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- [Pycoders Weekly](https://pycoders.com/) — a weekly newsletter on Python
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## YouTube Channel
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- [Crash Course](https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse/) — **(recommended)**; a YouTube channel that specializes in introducing you to a lot of concepts and subjects such as computers, sciences, and computer science
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- [patrickJMT](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFe6jenM1Bc54qtBsIJGRZQ) — focuses on mathematics so if you want to learn math through YouTube, here is one channel that specializes on it
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- [Professor Leonard](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg) — a YouTube channel that focuses on giving topics on calculus
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- [The Coding Train](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw)
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- [Vsauce](https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce) — need to say more?
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- [Wes Bos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoebwHSTvwalADTJhps0emA)
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## Operating Systems (yes, some of them are free)
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- [Local Hackday MLH (Major League Hacking)](https://localhackday.mlh.io/) — it's a global hackathon (that are related to MLH) finder
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- [MOOC List](https://www.mooc-list.com/) — similar to Class Central
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- [Open Culture](http://www.openculture.com/) — a site that provides open content and resources
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- [Open Educational Resources](https://www.oercommons.org/) — self-explanatory as to what their content is about
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- [Open Source](https://opensource.com/) — a site that talks all open source things
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**\*** - *if you're on a Windows OS, probably you're locked out of the option to download the ISO
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