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12 places that offer coding courses for free - John Rampton

There was a time when knowing how to program was for the geekiest of geeks. That’s not exactly the case today. As most entrepreneurs, freelancers and marketers will tell you, learning how to program can help you succeed. Over the past year, I've been learning to code. It's helped me to become a much better entrepreneur -- I can dive in when my team needs to fix a few bugs on the site. You don’t even need to shell out a ton of money or put yourself in debt to learn how to code, either. These 12 places offer coding courses for free: 1. CodeAcademy One of the most popular free places to learn coding is CodeAcademy . In fact, more than 24 million people have already learned how to code through this educational company’s engaging experience. At CodeAcademy, you can dive right in and take courses that teach you everything from  HTML & CSS ,  JavaScript ,  jQuery ,  PHP ,  Python  and  Ruby . 2. Coursera Founded in 2012, Coursera  has grown into a major for-profit educ