A freebie's resource list (mostly related to programming)

awesome — (very much recommended); it’s a curated list of lists; I guess you can say it’s awesome, mwehehehehehehehe…​ 😎

A Compilation of Useful, Free, Online Math Resources from /r/math

List of websites, ebooks, downloads, etc. for mobile users and people too lazy to read the sidebar from /r/learnmath

This list on Medium

List of the best free things online everyone can take advantage of on /r/BestOfSoftwares

This specialized list for programming on Reddit

Useful websites for programmers (by sdmg15 on GitHub) — also here’s an mirror article by Sahil Rajput on dev.to

Web Dev’t Study Resources (by dargaCode on GitHub)

Adobe Education Exchange — free courses offered by Adobe and its community

Brilliant — kind of like those MOOC but they teach you through solving problems

Codecademy

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources — you can find it here for the most part if you want the open educational resources (OER)

Coursera — (recommended)

CS50 Course by Harvard University — (very much recommended); a very good introductory course on computer science in general, just take it easy and follow the schedule then you’ll be fine; I also recommend to take it with friends or a study group too, much easier unlike the way I took 😥, but still doable with solo

edX — (recommended)

fast.ai — free courses on machine learning, ooooh yeah

freeCodeCamp — (recommended); project-based curriculum for web development

IXL — an educational resource and learning site on K-12 curriculum

Khan Academy — (recommended); there are also other topics outside of programming (i.e., mathematics, physics)

Learn X in Y Minutes — a community-created repository of summaries for you to learn the X programming languages

LinkedIn Learning — eLearning platform of LinkedIn

Microsoft Virtual Academy — yup, Microsoft has their own learning platform

MIT OpenCourseWare — (recommended); contains courses from a lot of subjects; you also might want to check out their OCW Scholar Courses wherein they are essentially more in-depth versions of the usual courses

MongoDB University — official courses from MongoDB

Online Stanford Courses

Open Educational Resources — self-explanatory as to what their content is about

Open Yale Courses

Scrimba — (recommended); videos with interactive code

Siyavula — mathematics- and science-focused open educational resources

SkillShare — almost like Udemy, almost like Udemy

Teach Engineering — well, it’s a educational resources site containing engineering stuff

The Odin Project — similar approach to freeCodeCamp

Tutorials Point — (recommended); a good overview on a bunch of programming languages

TutPlus — a bunch of tutorials and courses

Udacity —most, if not all courses are focused on technology

Udemy — HINT: they are discounted for almost all-year round; I also recommend to only look out for the top courses since there’s a lot of cluttering stuff in there

W3Schools

Wolfram MathWorld

Academia.edu

Brainly — (recommended); for students and peer-to-peer engagement

Mendeley

Google Scholar

Researchgate — most published studies under their platform are free to view

DevDocs — (very much recommended); a site wherein official documentation of different languages can be found; there’s also an offline version of it if you are lacking of internet speed (like me)

GitBook — easier finding for documentations

MDN Web Docs — (very much recommended); if you’re trying to learn web development and programming in general, this can be a hub for it

The Architecture on Open Source Applications — A bundle of books that are free to read online

Algorithms (by Jeff Erickson) — it’s a good book on algorithms (though not recommended as a first book on data structures and algorithms)

BC Campus Open Ed Open Textbook Database

Bookboon — offers premium books as well

Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science — self-explanatory title is self-explanatory

Calculus (by Kalid Azad from Better Explained)

Free Computer Books

Free Programming Books — (recommended); a GitHub repo by the E-Book Foundation

Free Science Books — another GitHub repo by the E-Book Foundation

Game Programming Patterns

Green Tea Press — free computer science-related ebooks

How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition (HTML version)

Introduction to Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition (2017, Lee and Seshia)

Invent with Python — A collection of free Python online books authored by Al Sweigart

Learn You A Haskell

Math Wiki — well, it is structured like a textbook and it is said that the Math Wiki is a textbook so there’s that

MIT Press Open — yes, free and open access books from MIT Press

Notes for Professionals — (very much recommended); made by folks at Stack Overflow from the Stack Overflow documentation for variety of languages and despite the title, it is quite helpful for beginners like me, as well; also, it is frequently updated like once per week

Open Data Structures — offers book

Open Library

Open SUNY Textbooks

Open Textbook Library — (recommended); same as OpenStax

OpenStax CNX — a database of open educational resources

OpenStax — (very much recommended in sciences); a library of open-licensed expert-curated college textbook and resources

Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition (HTML version) — unofficial (and prettier) version of one of MIT’s famous programming book (that can also be found online)

The Feynman’s Lectures on Physics

WikiToLearn

/r/dailyprogrammer

Coderbyte

Codewars — (recommended)

Euler Project — (recommended, if you want to be more challenged); has more focus on applying mathematical concepts than programming

Exercism — a site that focuses improving you through the mentor-mentee model

HackerRank — (recommended, if you want to be more challenged)

Pramp — you get to practice some programming interview questions and it’s free

Brain Pickings — it’s about whatever your brain might be piqued to

Dev.to

Explain That Stuff

GeeksforGeeks — (recommended); a computer science portal (for geeks)

Medium

Preadr — an article link collector collecting articles related to your configured interests

Scratch A Pixel — a list of articles on computer graphics

Wikipedia — if you want to learn random things

CodeNewbie

Coding Blocks — they also have a podcast

Dev.to — (recommended); beginner-friendly

freeCodeCamp Community

GitHub (of course)

HackerNews

Reddit /r/coding

Reddit /r/learnprogramming

Stack Overflow — look for the whole Meta Exchange network if you want to visit more communities other than Stack Overflow

BaseCS

CodeNewbie Podcast

Coding Blocks Podcast — great for beginners

College Info Geek Podcast — not related to programming; a good refresher about a variety of stuff

DevChat — a list of podcast

Developer Tea

Syntax — (recommended if you’re into web dev’t)

Programming Throwdown — beginner-friendly

Real Talk JavaScript

Soft Skills Engineering — (recommended); it’s a podcast series about the things that relate to software engineering that are not mostly coding-related

You Are Not So Smart — it’s a podcast series about exploring self-delusions and some psychological stuff and I really like psychological stuff so that’s why it’s here

Frontend Focus — another weekly newsletter about front-end development

Gamedev.js Weekly — weekly newsletter about HTML5 Game Development

JavaScript Weekly

Node Weekly

Official Node.js Weekly Newsletter

Postanly — a weekly digest of productivity life articles

Pycoders Weekly — a weekly newsletter on Python

Crash Course — (recommended); a YouTube channel that specializes in introducing you to a lot of concepts and subjects such as computers, sciences, and computer science

DevTips — (recommended); beginner-friendly

freeCodeCamp Talks

freeCodeCamp

Fun Fun Function — (recommended); your metaphorical caffeine every Monday

Jarvis Johnson — comedy channel with a slight focus on tech

Khan Academy — videos on various academic topics

LearnCode.academy

LevelUpTuts — (recommended); a beginner-friendly channel that mostly contains tutorials and introductions on various topics

Majorprep

Mozilla Hacks — web video series "Web Demystified"

patrickJMT — focuses on mathematics so if you want to learn math through YouTube, here is one channel that specializes on it

Professor Leonard — a YouTube channel that focuses on giving topics on calculus

The Coding Train

Vsauce — need to say more?

Wes Bos

fxSolver

Geogebra

Mathway

Symbolab

BitBucket

Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Free Tier

GitHub — (recommended); yeah

GitLab — (recommended);

Heroku — (recommended, if you’re starting); pretty much free

Microsoft Azure — Free Tier

Netlify — (recommended); their free options is pretty much amazing

cdnjs — (recommended, if you’re in web dev’t); CDN for web-related libraries

Cloudinary — mostly images and video CDN; also has image and video manipulation

Staticaly — CDN that serves files from different repo (BitBucket, GitLab, GitHub, and even GitHub gists) with the proper headers

UploadCare — image CDN with image manipulation on-the-fly

Autocad — offers free years of the premium version of their products

GitHub Educational Pack — assortment of benefits like unlimited private repositories on their own site, free domain name for a year, and free premium boosts on more sites

JetBrain Student Pack — offers free licenses for their tools like CLion, WebStorm, and IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

Microsoft Student Pack

A Pragmatic Quick Reference — it’s a collection of wisdoms put together in a list from the Coding Horror

Archive — it’s an archive site for everything, it seems; you can find a lot of stuff in there

Class Central — a search engine for courses at different MOOC sites

Developer Roadmap (by kamranahmedse) — (very much recommended); your reference in case you want to choose a specific role in software development (mine is more on the back-end development)

DevTube — YouTube for developers

Distrowatch — (recommended, if you’re into Linux); website watching for updates around Linux distros

Keep A Changelog

keyvalues — it’s a engineering job finder

Local Hackday MLH (Major League Hacking) — it’s a global hackathon (that are related to MLH) finder

MOOC List — similar to Class Central

Open Culture — a site that provides open content and resources

Open Source — a site that talks all open source things