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1. Codeacademy One of the most popular free places to learn coding is Codeacademy. In fact, more than 45 million people have already learned how to code through this,educational company’s engaging experience. At CodeAcademy, you can dive right in and take courses that teach you everything from HTML & CSS, JavaScript and SQL to Bash/Shell, Python, Ruby and C++. 2. Coursera Founded in 2012, Coursera has grown into a major for-profit educational-technology company that has offered more than 1,000 courses from 119 institutions. While you can pay for certain programs to receive a certificate, there are a number of free introductory programming courses,in various specializations from universities such as the University of Washington, Stanford, the University of Toronto and Vanderbilt. 3. Udemy Founded in 2010, Udemy is an online learning platform,that can be used as a way to improve or learn job skills. While there are courses you have to pay for, there are plenty of free programming courses, which are taught via video lessons, such as Programming for Entrepreneurs -- teaching Django- the #1 Python Frameworks, APIs, HTML, CSS, + Payments. While you won’t actually receive academic credit, this is a perfect introductory program for prospective computer programmers. 4. GitHub Sometimes, you need to recall are,ference book when you’re stuck on a problem. That's GitHub, where the site says, over 31 million developers collaborate to,host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. Many programming languages are used here and a Coding Camp teaches the basics. 5. Code Avengers Based out of New Zealand, Code Avengers provides,fun and interactive programming lessons for kids 5 to 14; for schoolteachers wanting to teach coding; for people going into coding professionally; and for creators ages 15 and up. Also offered are one- to three-day "code camps" for students up to 17. These day camps are located in,multiple states -- and foreign countries. Courses focus on game design, C++, HTML, Python and more and they're available in multiple languages. 6. Khan Academy Created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, Khan Academy is one of the original free online-learning institutions. With step-by-step video tutorials, you can learn how to program drawings, animations and games using JavaScript,and ProcessingJS, or learn how to create webpages,with HTML and CSS. See, especially, Khan's "Hour of Code," designed to introduce students to one hour,of computer science and computer programming. 7. Free Code Camp Here you’ll learn HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Databases, React.js, Node.js, and others by networking and joining this nonprofit's community of professionals and students. You’ll even work together on your coding,skills so that you can build apps for free. Here’s the catch: You’re learning those skills and building helps to help,solve real-world problems. Code is available,to nonprofits.