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Whether you're preparing for a new career or experimenting with magic powers, it's worth knowing how to program.

The best way to learn to program is through trial and error by working on projects that interest you. There's no substitute for solving problems mostly on your own, and for seeking out help only when necessary. The DIY approach makes concepts real and memorable because you've implemented them, rather than reading material that may be forgotten.

Kickstart the beginning of your new path into programming today!

1.Codecademy

Codecademy is indisputably the most famous website to teach you to code interactively, thanks to its helpful interface and well-structured courses. Upon visiting the main page, you can already start tasting the programming right away, with its motivating on-screen console. Pick a course that Codecademy offers from Web Fundamentals, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby and APIs.

Inside each lesson is a panel that explains necessary code and instruction. Another panel allows you to get your hands dirty by writing acceptable code, then checking if you are doing the right thing. Don’t worry about making mistakes, as both instruction and code panels will warn you of errors, and provide hints. It is as if there’s a kind teacher right beside you.

2.Code Avengers

Code Avengers is designed to make you love programming. Though it only offers HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript course for now, each of the courses is carefully designed to truly entertain you while leveling your programming skills painlessly. At the end of each lesson you also get to play a mini game to release your cumulated stress, and keep you going for longer.

Code Avengers has a gradual approach to interactive learning. It does not explain too much knowledge that isn’t essential for beginners, just a bit of code and playful instruction, making things very easy to digest. You also get to play with the code, then see the impact of the changes immediately. It is carefully crafted with the beginner’s comfort in mind.

3.Code School

After you finished courses in Codecademy or Code Avengers, and you are ready to further expand your capabilities, Code School is the next quality website you should land on. Unlike most interactive learning sites, Code School offers morein-depth courses to train and turn you into an expert with the industry’s best practices.

Almost all courses are aggressively polished with impressive design and informative screencasts, though the challenges after the screencast might bit a bit hard for amateurs. Luckily, there are hints and answers to refer to. Whilemost of the offered courses are free, certain ones will require you to spend$25/month to access the entire course including all screencasts and challenges, and also all other courses in Code School.

4.LearnStreet

If you are that kind of personnel who do not fancy playful design and prefer to deal with cold hard codes, LearnStreet is probably your thing. It currently offers JavaScript, Python and Ruby courses at beginner level. With a click on the ‘Start Course’ button you will start the lesson with an exercise, a code interpreter and a glossary panel (for new programming terms).

LearnStreet adopts command prompt-styled code interpreters with human language to explain function and encourage you whenever possible, the kind of command prompt you want for your own local machine. However, the code interpreter could be as rude as standard command prompt, as most of the times it requires you to type in the absolute same code and content it asks for.

Other than that, it’s truly friendly and enjoyable, and most importantly, free.

5.Khan Academy

Although Khan Academy’s courses are not as structured as CodeHS, it serves as an open playground for both novice and amateurs particularly interested in learning drawing, animation and user interaction with code. It does not preach any specific programming language, but the code pattern it adopts can be applied anywhere, as a majority of languages share the similar programming pattern.

You can first join the Programming Basics course to watch and learn basic concepts, then explore the given code after the video tutorial to validate your doubts. With Khan Academy, you can save your modification as a Spin-Off for everyone to enjoy and customize. There have been hundreds of spin-offs just from one lesson in one course, so imagine the community size, and the lesson’s effectiveness.

6.SQLZOO

Structured Query Language (SQL) is just a language purely designed to store and retrieve data from a database, so imagine the boredom you will experience when programming a warehouse. Yet SQLZOO wants you to learn SQL happily with its interactive interface and smileys.

Since there is really nothing too deep to explain for a straightforward language like SQL, the site will only ask you to replace the variables like city names or population number, and raise the difficulty from that level. One huge let-down will be the shortage of hints, answers and forum, so you are probably doomed if you fail to solve any one of the quizzes, just like old times.

7.Udacity

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Udacity is the next best on the web to learn to code. Udacity believes today’s higher education system is broken. Udacity believes that education is no longer something that happens once in a lifetime, but rather is a lifelong experience. It is true in every sense and so it has ported loads of computer science, math and physics courses online.

Udacity is the perfect tutor for lazy people like me. I hate watching extremely long and time consuming video tutorials, and that’s where exactly Udacity saves my day. Udacity offers video tutorials inserted with quizzes at each intervals. The video tutorials offered at Udacity are broken down into minutes of 2-3 that simply do what they were meant to.

8.Coursera

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Although I haven’t had any personal experience with programming courses at Coursera, I have had my peers rating it very high in terms of its format. Coursera is not your regular online course and it is very strict and highly structured in its format. This is the best choice if you want tight schedules and assignments, a very college-like atmosphere.

Coursera offers a wide range of courses in Computer science alone, and you cannot start off instantly. Although it is free, the classes are conducted once in every few months and you have to enrol in advance to the class, or add it in your wishlist for the next class.

I have enrolled in a Songwriting course (personal interest) at Coursera by Pat Pattinson of Berklee College of Music, and that is in no way related to programming! But its Computer science courses are highly celebrated among its students. There is also a ‘Signature Track’ courses that let you to get a certified diploma from the college posted to you for a fee starting from $30 ranging to $90, depending on the course you enrol.

9. edX

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EdX is another leading online-learning platform that is open source instead of for-profit. It was founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, so you know that you’ll learn about cutting-edge technologies and theories. Today, edX includes 60 schools. You probably can’t go wrong with the free Introduction to Computer Science from Harvard University.

10.Udemy

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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 - HTML & CSS or Introduction to Python Programming..