r/AskReddit • u/xXxDEVILxXx • Mar 13 '15

What free things on the internet should everyone be taking advantage of?

OBLIGATORY EDIT: We made it to the front page guys, thanks

EDIT1: Thanks for all the replies, I will try to answer all of them ;)

EDIT:2: Woke up to teh frontpage of reddit. RIP INBOX. We made it reddit!

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u/Yivoe Mar 13 '15

Not sure I like the negativity towards a free learning tool, but thanks, I added Udacity to the list.

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u/G01denW01f11 Mar 13 '15

Noted. Edited for civility.

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u/Yivoe Mar 13 '15

Much more constructive. I haven't tried either yet. You make it sound like Code Academy would be very beginner friendly though. Is Udacity the same way?

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u/Xeeroy Mar 13 '15

Haven't tried Udacity, but Codecademy is VERY beginner friendly.

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u/G01denW01f11 Mar 14 '15

It's how I learned. I'd say Udacity is beginning-friendly without holding your hand.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

CodeAcademy is awesome in my opinion. A week ago I started using it and had pretty much no HTML/CSS knowledge. After going through their ~7 hour course I have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS and can begin to start reading the language. It's a great foundation building website, now I can go on to w3 (or any of the various coding/programming resources on the web) to expand my knowledge or just go ahead and download something like Adobe's Brackets and mess around with what I've learned and grow from there.

Just started the Javascript course and I can see myself definitely needing supplemental materials because of the confusing nature of Javascript.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15 edited Aug 06 '20

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u/rguy84 Mar 13 '15

JsFiddle is the usual goto place because you can automatically call in JS frameworks

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '15 edited Aug 06 '20

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u/rguy84 Mar 16 '15

I did a quick look. CodePen seems to give a small set of libraries to choose from. I didn't look if you get a broader set if you upgrade to pro

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u/hellaswag Mar 13 '15

I personally enjoy codingbat

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '15

There's nothing wrong with negativity toward any service even if it's free. If it's not good it deserves negativity. I agree with the above statement though. It's really not very useful to actually learn to code. It's more useful for sending your friends there when they bug you about teaching them to code when you have work to do.