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24 alternatives to Libre Academy

Free, open-source interactive coding courses. 90+ courses across 21 languages: write real code, graded by hidden tests, zero paywall and no sign-up. A free alternative to Codecademy.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741). My cofounder and I decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at [email protected].

    2011 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →

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    Some highlights: - 100% free and open source (https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder), no ads or paid content. - No account required at any point. You can start instantly. (You can create an account if you want to save your progress online and across devices. Your email is only used for password resets) - 3 integrated debuggers can be started with one click to show what your code is doing in different ways. - Enhanced tracebacks make errors easy to understand. - Useful for anyone: You can have the above without having to look at the course. IDE mode…

    2023 · futurecoder.io · its alternatives →

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    https://the-pocket.github.io/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge/

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn to code for free

    2015 · freecodecamp.org · its alternatives →

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    Learn the foundations to be a full stack software engineer. 100% free.

    2020 · c0d3.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · upskillcourses.com · its alternatives →

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    Libredesk is a 100% free and open-source customer support desk, the backend is written in Go and the frontend is in Vue JS with ShadnCN for UI components. Unlike many "open-core" alternatives that lock essential features behind enterprise plans, Libredesk is fully open-source and plans to always stay this way. It's in alpha (v0.1.0) right now, but there’s a working demo available. I built this because I wanted a truly open and self-hosted alternative to platforms like Chatwoot, Intercom, and Zendesk. Would love feedback, suggestions, and thoughts from the community. GitHub:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and sell interactive programming courses

    2021 · codedamn.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn Python easily with your personalized AI tutor

    2024 · codebay.ai · its alternatives →

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    I'm launching UneeBee, an open-source tool for creating interactive courses like Duolingo: GitHub repo: https://github.com/zoonk/uneebee Demo: https://app.uneebee.com/ It's pretty early-stage, so there's a lot of things to improve. Everything on this project is going to be public, so you can check the roadmap on GitHub too: https://github.com/orgs/zoonk/projects/11 I'm creating this project because I love Duolingo and I wanted the same kind of experience to learn other things as well. But I think this could be useful to other…

    2023 · uneebee.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated list of free online programming courses

    2017 · coursesity.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.

    2021 · codeamigo.dev · its alternatives →

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    The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…

    2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn programming for free. Backed by Crypto.

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    An IDE for eLearning - create and deliver coding courses

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Free to download, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

    2021 · libretranslate.com · its alternatives →

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    Practice the most in-demand skills with AI tutor, Cosmo

    2024 · codesignal.com · its alternatives →

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    edCode▲161

    The free, fun, and effective way to learn how to code.

    2024 · tortee.my · its alternatives →

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    Bot Libre▲107

    Free open artificial intelligence for everyone

    2016 · botlibre.org · its alternatives →

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    100% free and interactive Python course for beginners - alexmojaki/futurecoder

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Gary Bernhardt, founder of Execute Program, an interactive platform for learning programming languages and other programming tools. Our "Python for Programmers" course is in a free open beta for the next week or so. We don't normally do open betas, but the infrastructure behind this course is new and very complex, so we want to stress test it. https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/python-for-programmer... Today, "Python for Programmers" contains 581 interactive code examples covering the core language. It's aimed at established programmers, not beginners. We don't…

    2023 · executeprogram.com · its alternatives →

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    CodeGuppy▲106

    Free coding platform for schools and coding clubs

    2022 · codeguppy.com · its alternatives →

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