1. CareerFoundry Web Development for Beginners Course
This nano-bootcamp is a perfect way to create something tangible from the start. It only takes five days to complete, and it’s entirely based on a project where you build your own website. You’ll be introduced to all the major frontend concepts. This means creating the page using HTML for the markup, then CSS to style it, and JavaScript to make it come alive with functionality.
What’s really neat is that you’ll learn a crucial part of web development these days: responsive web design. Despite the importance of making sure your website looks its best no matter what the size of device it’s displayed on—this is often overlooked. Responsive design isn’t just something that UI designers are responsible for—a good web developer actually makes it happen.
Once you’ve completed this Web Development for Beginners Course and enjoyed it, you can take the month-long, fully mentored Intro to Frontend Development Course.
That flows into the complete the flexibly-paced Full-Stack Web Development Program, which is designed specifically to enable your career change into a lucrative career in web development, and comes backed by a Job Guarantee. For a taste of what the mini-bootcamp is like, in this opening video our in-house developer Abhi gets you started building your first website with HTML:
2. Codecademy
A great place to start when it comes to free coding bootcamps, Codecademy uses a teaching formula heavy on the “learn by doing” approach, proving an invaluable teacher for budding developers.
In fact, it was here that CareerFoundry’s own founder Martin Ramsin began taking free courses when he was learning to code himself. Offering a huge range of paid and free options, Codecademy’s web development courses are an excellent way to learn to code quickly.
Once you complete the beginners courses in HTML and Ruby, you can move onto intermediate classes in CSS, PHP, and the React library, Node.js, p5.js, and AngularJS 1.X. We really like that there are cool other free courses included, such as learning Game Development and how to program Amazon Alexa devices.
If you’re a fan of the free courses, then sign up for their PRO plan, which lets you access hundreds more courses, as well as dedicated career paths.
3. CodeOp
Forced online by the Covid-19 pandemic, CodeOp offers free coding bootcamps for women, transgender, and gender non-conformative people who are looking to get into tech. As well as creating a comfortable environment for learning, this school concentrates on supporting and mentoring students through small class sizes.
Their bootcamp is broken down into live workshops on HTML CSS, JavaScript (beginner and advanced levels), Git, and Command-Line navigation.
If you enjoyed the classes, then you can sign up for their full- or part-time Full-Stack Bootcamp, which costs €5,300 ($6,254) to study online or €7,200 ($8,496) to do it in-person in Barcelona or Kuala Lumpur.
4. UpSkill
Looking for a free coding bootcamp that’s as comprehensive as possible? UpSkill’s “Essential Web Developer Course” is completely free and features a whopping 197 lessons to go through.
In it, you’ll be getting to grips with HTML, CSS, Ruby, and JavaScript, then focusing on lots of practical elements of being a web developer through a range of tools and frameworks. All of this is carried out according to UpSkill’s founding message—to explain all of these concepts as simply as possible.
They also have a JavaScript Basics bootcamp, as well as many more free and paid courses.
5. Ada Developers Academy
Similar to CodeOp, this non-profit school aims to break down the barriers preventing women and gender expansive adults from thriving in tech.
Based in Seattle, their free coding bootcamp prepares students for the job market by teaching them not just to write code but also crucially how to debug and also discuss it. Knowing how to communicate about web development with others, whether they are colleagues, clients, or other teams, is a key element of web development that many bootcamps overlook.
In addition to learning the likes of Python, HTML, SQL, and JavaScript, Ada Developers Academy also gives its students training in advocacy in tech—such as diversity and inclusion, leadership, and advocacy work, to name just a few. This is important across the tech sphere, not just within company environments, but also in the work itself.
6. FreeCodeCamp
This online learning platform does exactly what its name suggests, offering multiple free coding bootcamps. These can range from a Responsive Web Design Certification to ones in APIs and Microservices, Frontend Development Libraries, and Machine Learning with Python.
Perhaps even more useful still to budding web developers is the fact that freeCodeCamp boasts thousands of coding challenges. As well as rehearsing common web developer interview questions, this is an excellent way to prepare for job applications.
7. SkillCrush
What we like about their free coding bootcamp is that as well as the almost obligatory HTML and CSS, you’ll also learn how to code with WordPress, a prized skill.
WordPress runs so many websites and blogs (including this one), and proficiency in WordPress development could be ideal for a freelance web developer who wants to be constantly in demand.
What’s more, the camp also includes more of the visual elements as well, with a basic introduction to UX design as well. If you’re looking to learn what it is and why it’s important, we’ve created a handy guide.
8. MIT OpenCourseware
When it comes to free coding bootcamps, why not study at MIT? Their Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python course is conducted mostly over recorded lectures, with regular problem sets and quizzes being the main way of applying what you’ve learned.
While the academic setting may not be in the true “bootcamp spirit,” the course’s aim of teaching you to solve problems using computation is really useful for getting a job as a web developer.
Allied to this is the fact that you’ll learn to create your own programs using Python 3.5, meaning you’ll be getting to grips with the most wanted language out there, according to Stack Overflow.
9. Resilient Coders
Similar to Ada Developers Academy, this 20- week, free coding bootcamp is based in Boston. Resilient Coders have the goal of introducing more equity to the tech world, and their bootcamps are for young people of color without college degrees.
They recruit these through hackathons (another hidden bonus to joining a hackathon), and the successful cohort are then taught core and soft skills, in preparation for employment.
These core skills include HTML, CSS, JavaScript and multiple tools, libraries, and frameworks, with an emphasis on fluency in vanilla JavaScript—something we also recommend you learn. In addition to this, you are taught soft skills for the profession, from communication to time management, and also to complete your own freelance work for a client during the bootcamp.
Truly this makes for the full package—allowing you not just to work as an in-house programmer on graduating, but also to become a freelance web developer.
10. School of Code
An in-person 16-week bootcamp before the pandemic, like a lot of physical institutions, School of Code went to remote learning and hasn’t looked back.
Based in the UK, this one is a little different to the other free coding bootcamps on this list, most of which you can jump straight into. You’ll need to get through an application process which includes a recorded video, creating a trial program using Harvard’s CS50 course, and an interview.
However, it has major benefits. Once you get accepted, there is a full dedicated bootcamp where you’ll learn everything from web fundamentals, to advanced JavaScript and cloud hosting. School of Code promises to help get you as job-ready as possible, with employment partners such as Ricoh, The Economist, and Purple Bricks.
11. Flatiron School
Here is another solid video-led series of classes which together make up a nice little free coding bootcamp.
You’ll be taken through the basic building blocks of web and software development, all broken down into four areas—HTML CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, and API Integration.
The inclusion of APIs is a real treat. One of the web development buzzwords you should learn if you want to become a programmer, knowing how to code APIs is a great thing to know how to do when you’re working for a company.
If you enjoyed the way this particular course was taught, then maybe you’d like to take some of their full paid courses in Software and Cybersecurity Engineering, which cost $16,900.
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