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24 alternatives to Your Free CS Education
Cut to the chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nyzl3pVXp4 I really am a big supporter of quality education being available for everyone, and because of that I've opted to open source my CS education on YouTube. I'm starting with Rails, and I will eventually work around to more core CS topics like circuits -> logic gates -> binary -> assembly -> c -> Data Structures -> Algorithms etc. If you like it subscribe and I'm looking for all the feedback I can get on how to make it better :)
Your Free CS Education is a YouTube-based open-source learning platform offering free computer science instruction. It begins with Rails web development and progresses through foundational topics including circuits… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Your Free CS Education launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Lambda School▲238A full Computer Science education - free until you get a job
2017 · bloomtech.com · its alternatives →
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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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Learn the foundations to be a full stack software engineer. 100% free.
2020 · c0d3.com · its alternatives →
- 5IM
Hi everyone! I’m the founder of Explanations (https://explanations.app). I’m building a website where students can get college level math & physics help for 1/10th the cost of private tutoring. You’d type a question, and your teacher replies by drawing a Youtube/KhanAcademy-style video; and this happens asynchronously throughout the week. When I was studying at MIT, I often had to wait 40-60 minutes in line just to get 5 minutes of “help” from a TA - when I needed 1-2 hours. I understood that TAs can’t spend all their time helping me. That’s understandable. But what made…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
2016 · ossu.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
- 7GI
Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D
2023 · its alternatives →
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Learn HTML, JS, CSS & Node.js w/ free videos & live code
2018 · blog.glitch.com · its alternatives →
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Join a community for self-taught and bootcamp developers
2021 · gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of 650+ university CS courses for the curious
2021 · collegecompendium.org · its alternatives →
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Hey! I’m JC. I’m 17 and part of Hack Club, a nonprofit where we help teenagers ship programming projects with their friends while growing technically. A while ago, I asked myself the question, “How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?” It seemed really daunting until I went to a half hour workshop at a high school hackathon about writing a tree-walk interpreter and realized that getting started was actually super fun. This guide is designed in the vein of that - to get people, especially teenagers, started on learning how to build a programming language in a literal…
2024 · easel.hackclub.com · its alternatives →
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Classroomies▲148Watch Stanford CS & Startup lectures together
2018 · classroomies.com · its alternatives →
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Curated guide to learning Computer Science
2017 · teachyourselfcs.com · its alternatives →
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I was working on this for a year. More than 80 completely free videos alongside a free booklet for LPIC1 preparation or to be be used anyone who wants to learn more about GNU/Linux. Feedbacks are more than welcomed.
2023 · linux1st.com · its alternatives →
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C Systems Lab is a free interactive web course that walks through 10 modules of systems programming in C: compilation, pointers, dynamic memory, structs, the preprocessor, file I/O, processes and signals, sockets, concurrency, and a tour below C. The free course itself is the link. Get the free sample of the PDF by adding "/demo" to the link. Since I don't necessarily like the paywall aspect of it, you may ask me for the complete edition by reaching out via email. Happy to answer questions about the content or the curriculum design.
May 2026 · csystemslab.com · its alternatives →
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CodeHS ▲22Teaching comp sci to beginners w/ no prior background.
2014 · codehs.com · its alternatives →
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Online interactive resource for students to learn about CS
2016 · csfieldguide.org.nz · its alternatives →
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2019 · courseroot.com · its alternatives →
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Link here: http://beta.whatispolymath.com Despite all the educational material on the web, I found it pretty hard to learn how to code and design. I had trouble finding high-quality content, figuring out what to learn next, and staying motivated without easy ways to track my progress. So, my co-founder and I built Polymath. Our MVP is pretty simple right now: you can find & submit good content, bookmark & track your progress across different resources, and rate/comment on the material. We’re trying to build a really fun online learning community, and we’ve got some more cool features…
2012 · beta.whatispolymath.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Learn to code from scratch with hands-on lessons, a structured curriculum, and real projects. Stop watching tutorials, start writing code for free now.
2022 · boot.dev · its alternatives →
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just a wack systems dude tbh
2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →
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The idea: what if you could get a “Masterclass”-style experience, but free, using existing YouTube content? So I made OpenCademy — right now it only has two quick startup "courses" (101 & 102), built from curated YouTube clips, all embedded and organized into modules. It’s still early (no accounts, no backend), but it’s bingeable. Would love thoughts on whether this concept feels useful or just... redundant.
Nov 2025 · opencademy.com · its alternatives →
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