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The best free alternative to Codecademy is freeCodeCamp, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Codecademy and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Codecademy are Khan Academy, exercism, SoloLearn: Learn to Code and edX.

Codecademy alternatives are mainly Code Learning Services but may also be Online Education Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Codecademy.
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  1. freeCodeCamp icon

    freeCodeCamp

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    106 alternatives to freeCodeCamp 

    Free Code Camp's open source community help you build a job-worthy portfolio of real apps used by real people, while helping nonprofits.

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    1.  DRM FreeNo Digital rights management (DRM), i.e. no copy protection.
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    FreeCodeCamp is a fantastic alternative to Codecademy's web development classes on HTML, CSS, and JQuery. It is completely free, utilizes a live sandbox format for application of learned concepts, and, most of all, features a massive support community.

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    aihlenburg

    It's also interactive and browser-based.

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    After taking the full course which needs about 3 months, you can understand so much code.

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    pschlenker

    Because I love the interactive live code functionality and it seems to have better exercises than Codecademy.

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    Khan Academy

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    Khan Academy is not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

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    1.  Ad-freeKhan Academy doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
    2.  GamificationKhan Academy makes use of game-design elements such as point scoring, competition, achievements, etc.
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    Khan academy is a bit more on the school kind of stuff, it's not yet in the programming & coding arena.

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    Although there are sections about programming (which are not necessarily strong in quality), it is not the primary focus on this website. This is a fantastic site, however, to study math with.

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    Khan Academy does not focus on coding as much as other alternatives.

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    exercism

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    Download and solve practice problems in over 30 different languages. For code newbies and experienced programmers.

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    1.  Crowdsourcedexercism uses suggestions, information, etc., from a large group of people to improve the quality of the content.
    2.  Gamificationexercism makes use of game-design elements such as point scoring, competition, achievements, etc.
    3.  Command line interfaceexercism either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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    SoloLearn: Learn to Code

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    Learning has never been this social and accessible for so many! Bit-sized videos and fun practice sessions grab your attention and keep you focused, for guaranteed best results!.

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    edX

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    Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new distance-learning experience. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX.

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    tutorialspoint

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    Free tutorials and reference manuals with examples for Computer Fundamentals, JSF, C Sharp, Flex, GWT, PL/SQL, Eclipse, JUnit, Pascal, Maven, Scala, Spring, Struts 2, HTML5, ANT, iBATIS, Django, JSP, JAVA, JDBC, AJAX, WAP, SQL, MySQL, C/C++, PERL, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails...

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    The Odin Project

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    The Odin Project is one of those "What I wish I had when I was learning" resources. Not everyone has access to a computer science education or the funds to attend an intensive coding school and neither of those is right for everyone anyway.

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    Code.org

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    Code.org is a non-profit whose goal is to expose all students to computer programming. We believe that computer programming is a liberal art; it's something EVERY student in the world should be exposed to at some point in their childhood education.

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    LeetCode

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    LeetCode is a platform for learning and improving coding skills with the goal of being fully prepared for programming interviews. Choose problems to solve from categories such as System Design, Algorithms and Database, join code contests and engage in mock interviews.

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    Grasshopper

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    The coding app for beginners. With fun, quick lessons on your phone, the app teaches adult learners to write real JavaScript.

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