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I’ve written before about sites that introduce school kids to programming<\/a>, but these four sites offer college-level programming for free. All of these resources are Massive Open Online Courses (called MOOCs) that serve thousands of students at a time, and certainly shaking up our old definitions of higher education! <\/p>\n

1) MIT Open Courseware<\/a> These classes are taught by MIT professors, but they do not accrue any college credits.<\/p>\n

2) Coursera<\/a> is an online education platform that partners with about twenty universities from around the world. Again, no college credit, but no tuition costs either!<\/p>\n

3) edX<\/a> is another free platform that offers classes from a variety of universities. <\/p>\n

4) Code Academy <\/a> is an independent organization that offers a variety of introductory programming classes. They don’t offer the same depth of study as the university affiliated MOOCs, but they can be a great place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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