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Coursera

Coursera is a learning platform with over 80 million learners and courses from 200+ leading universities and companies worldwide. If you're curious enough, learn in-demand skills today.
From Coursera, "Build new skills for that 'this is my year' feeling with courses, certificates, and degrees from world-class universities and companies."

Steps:
  • Create an account with Coursera
  • Pick a course
  • Free courses are available, and students with school-specific email addresses can apply for some courses free of charge.
  • If you still can get your desired course free, don't worry. Coursera offers financial aid for the courses available. You need to write two essays about why you need financial assistance and how the course will benefit your career.
  • Next, wait patiently for 15 days until your course is ready!
  • Lastly, ensure you complete each course you’re granted financial aid.

One pro tip, you can apply for more courses once you're ready for them. You can as well use the same essay for financial aid. But, modify how it'll help your career. Thank you!

Udemy

Udemy is a platform that allows instructors to build online courses on their preferred topics. Using Udemy's course development tools, they can upload videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, audio, ZIP files and live classes to create courses. Instructors can also engage and interact with users via online discussion boards.
Udemy is part of the MOOC movement available outside the traditional university system, and has been noted for the variety of courses offered.

Steps:
  • Log into your Udemy account and click on My learning at the top right-hand of the page.
  • Select the course you wish to take by clicking on the course icon.
  • The first lecture will begin playing in the course player.

Udemy offers discounted purchase on courses periodically. Watchout for those discount and purchase courses for as low as N2900.

Freecodecamp

freeCodeCamp (also referred to as “Free Code Camp”) is a non-profit organization that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms, online publications and local organizations that intend to make learning web development accessible to anyone. Beginning with tutorials that introduce students to HTML, CSS and JavaScript, students progress to project assignments that they complete either alone or in pairs. Upon completion of all project tasks, students are partnered with other nonprofits to build web applications, giving the students practical development experience.

Steps:
  • Create an account with Freecodecamp
  • Pick a course- Responsive Web Design to start with.
  • All courses are free!!!!!
  • Subscribe to the YouTube channel for video tutorials from top professionals!
  • Sign up for Freecodecamp's Newsletter to receive updates.
  • Lastly, ensure you complete each course you start. One at a time!!!

One pro tip, Freecodecamp's tutorial are one of the best tutorial for anything coding on YouTube. It ranges from Software Development, Java, C#, Linux and Operating systems.

Udacity

Enroll in Udacity today and, for as few as 10 hours a week, you can get the in-demand skills you need to help land a high-paying tech job. Learn at your own pace, when and where it’s convenient for you.
From Udacity, "Udacity is not an accredited university and we don't confer traditional degrees. Udacity Nanodegree programs represent collaborations with our industry partners who help us develop our content and who hire many of our program graduates. "

It's so easy to get started with your own Udacity account.
  • Go to https://www.udacity.com.
  • Click on Get Started on the top right corner of the homepage.
  • You can either connect your Google or Facebook account, or you can just fill out the Sign Up form.
  • Click Sign Up, and that's it
  • Get started with taking Free courses on Udacity!
  • Lastly, Udacity partners with organizations offerings Scholarships to specific number of students. Sign up for their newsletter to receive updates on these scholarships to get a Nanodegree from Udacity! Connect with them on LinkedIn and Twitter for updates!

Sololearn

Sololearn is on a mission to build the most fun, accessible, and effective technical learning experience worldwide. We aim to help anyone, anywhere bridge the technical skills gap to future, life-changing careers. We’re changing the way people learn how to code by building a habit-forming experience for people to learn at their own pace, with bite-sized lessons and unique ways to practice.
Joining Sololearn is an opportunity to build products which benefit the millions of current learners in our community, the enterprise sector across multiple industries, and the billions of learners who will want or need to reskill over the next decade.

Some perks of learning in this community include:
  • It’s free programming community which doesn’t cost a buck to start learning
  • You get to collaborate with proficient programmers
  • Availability of open source projects in various languages
  • It has a well-defined learning procedure

Get the Sololearn App to get started today!
One pro tip: If you’re looking for the best guide when starting a career in programming, then I’ll suggest you grab your programming device and sign up as a member of the Sololearning community. It’s a great place to learn the basics of web development, data science, object-oriented programming, many other amazing concepts you’ll come across in your career.

Alx Learning

ALX offers top training in leading fields for future young leaders. Programme fees have been waived in 2022 due to the sponsorship of the Mastercard Foundation and other partners. We welcome you to apply if you are over the age of 18 and want to build employable skills and thrive in an impactful career.

Requirements:
  • Between 18-34 years of age
  • Commit to 8 weeks, 40-50 hours/week.
  • Looking for an entry level opportunity.
  • Access to a laptop or desktop.
  • Proficiency in written and spoken English.
  • Apply for the program!

PS: All Alx Programs fee for 2022 have been waived by Mastercard sponsorship.

edX

edX is a mission-driven, massive open online course (MOOC) provider. We partner with the world’s leading universities and organizations to offer high-quality online courses to learners across the world.
Every individual has the potential to create change, whether in their life, their community, or the world. The transformative power of education is what unlocks that potential. Yet, access to high-quality education has been a privilege of the few. Back in 2012, we realized it was a time for a seismic shift in learning. From the tried and true to the leading edge. From “for some” to “for all.” By opening the classroom through online learning, edX empowers millions of learners to unlock their potential and become changemakers.

  • Sign Up with edX
  • Make a learning commitment
  • Find your course in the catalogue
  • Get Started with the course

PS: Almost all edX courses are free but you need to pay to get a verified certificate.

Khan Academy

A personalized learning resource for all age!
Learning all by yourself might be difficult but with khan academy's learning resources your improvement bounds no limit. "Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including exam and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. We focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there's no limit to what they can learn next!"

Get started with Khan Academy
  • Choose your subjects.
  • Focus on specific units
  • See what you already know
  • Learn or review key concepts
  • Practice what you learn
  • Try a Mastery Challenge
  • Build a routine
  • Remember: learning takes time!

PS: Khan Academy provide incredible resources for the Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) preparation .