Deep Learning added a pick
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Intuition-first videos with practical projects. Gentler pacing than fast.ai.
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No prior experience assumed. Start here if the topic is new to you. 202 picks across all topics (136 free), newest first.
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Graphic Design added a pick
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Learn the pen tool through a game. Removes the most common frustration in vector software.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Short project-based classes on Figma, wireframing, and portfolios. Learn one skill at a time.
Data Science added a pick
Math, statistics, Python, and ML in one package. Breadth over depth, at a modest price.
Photography added a pick
Short project-based classes on specific styles — street, food, portraits. Learn by assignment.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Old-fashioned but reliable practice problems with instant feedback. Good for drilling.
Video Editing added a pick
Project-based classes on editing, YouTube workflows, and short-form video.
Machine Learning added a pick
Amazon's visual essays on bias-variance, ROC curves, and more. Beautiful and accurate.
MLU-Explain (opens provider site in a new tab)
Amazon Machine Learning University
Graphic Design added a pick
A browser game that trains your eye for letter spacing. Five minutes a day sharpens it fast.
French added a pick
Immersion-style lessons with speech recognition that helps with tricky French pronunciation.
Japanese added a pick
Immersive picture-based lessons with speech recognition. Good for pronunciation confidence.
Mandarin added a pick
Immersion lessons with speech recognition that gives useful feedback on tones.
Spanish added a pick
Immersive, picture-based lessons with speech recognition. Good for learners who dislike grammar tables.
Statistics added a pick
A compact course on descriptive statistics, inference, and regression. A good-value refresher.
Cooking added a pick
Ramsay on knife skills, eggs, pasta, and fish. Precise technique from a demanding teacher.
Data Science added a pick
A Python-first alternative to Google's certificate, with more machine learning toward the end.
Digital Marketing added a pick
A wide survey of channels in one course. Useful for small-business owners doing it all themselves.
Guitar added a pick
Erich Andreas' thorough course with a clear progression. One purchase covers years of material.
Photography added a pick
Phil Ebiner covers camera modes, genres, and editing basics in one affordable package.
Product Management added a pick
A practical overview of the role, from wireframes to metrics. Popular with career switchers.
Public Speaking added a pick
A veteran broadcaster on connecting with audiences and handling nerves. Warm and practical.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Jose Portilla's PostgreSQL course. Clear and practical, with plenty of exercises.
Startup Founding added a pick
Spanx's founder on bootstrapping, product, and selling with little money. Candid and motivating.
Video Editing added a pick
A project-based Premiere course from import to export, regularly updated. Straightforward and clear.
Graphic Design added a pick
Lindsay Marsh covers theory and Adobe tools together, with many practical projects.
Machine Learning added a pick
A broad tour of classic algorithms with code templates. Light on theory, heavy on doing.
Product Design added a pick
A business-school take on design thinking, with real cases. Good for designers working with executives.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Colt Steele's approachable walk through Big O and problem-solving patterns, in JavaScript.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Stephen Grider's diagrams make interfaces, goroutines, and channels intuitive. Best for visual learners.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Angela Yu's long-running iOS course. Many small apps, with both UIKit and SwiftUI.
JavaScript added a pick
Jonas Schmedtmann explains why, not just how. Long, but the projects build real confidence.
Rust added a pick
Stephen Grider diagrams ownership and lifetimes visually, which gets many people past the borrow checker.
Web Development added a pick
Angela Yu covers front end through Node and databases. Good if you like one teacher end to end.
Personal Finance added a pick
The encyclopedia of financial terms. Look up anything you don't understand before acting on it.
Python added a pick
One small project a day for 100 days. Best for people who need a daily habit, not a syllabus.
Statistics added a pick
The Open University's free short courses on data and statistics. Clear, self-paced, and well structured.
Japanese added a pick
Helpful for a daily habit and kana practice. Pair it with a real grammar guide.
Japanese added a pick
Misa explains grammar nuances clearly with many examples. Ideal for "but why?" questions.
French added a pick
The classic immersion series, still free. Dated fashions, timeless teaching method.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Meta's official training for Facebook and Instagram ads. Learn the platform before trusting agencies.
Sales added a pick
Practical, templated advice on cold email, follow-ups, and pipelines for small teams.
Cooking added a pick
Safe temperatures, storage times, and handling basics. Five minutes of reading prevents real illness.
Cooking added a pick
A short, sensible course on nutrition and home cooking. Shifts how you shop and plan meals.
Startup Founding added a pick
Bill Aulet's method for finding a first customer. The opening of MIT's Disciplined Entrepreneurship.
Web Development added a pick
A long guided path from HTML to deployment, all in the browser. Requires a Pro subscription.
Graphic Design added a pick
Project-based classes from working designers — logos, posters, lettering. Build a portfolio piece by piece.
Personal Finance added a pick
Free, impartial guidance backed by the UK government on budgeting, debt, and pensions.
Personal Finance added a pick
Short, well-researched videos on budgeting, debt, and investing basics. Fun and trustworthy.
Public Speaking added a pick
Local clubs where you speak regularly and get structured, kind feedback. Nothing beats reps.
Toastmasters International (opens provider site in a new tab)
Toastmasters International
Public Speaking added a pick
Preparing, practising, and delivering speeches, with recorded video assignments and feedback.
Video Editing added a pick
Docs for a free, open-source editor that runs anywhere. Good for editing on a budget.
Writing added a pick
A short essay with a big payoff: plain words, short sentences, honest ideas.
Data Science added a pick
NumPy, pandas, and visualization projects checked by automated tests. Free certification included.
Guitar added a pick
The biggest library of chords and tabs. Check the ratings — quality varies a lot.
Guitar added a pick
Free lessons and exercises on notes, intervals, and chords. Theory that makes the fretboard make sense.
Photography added a pick
Thousands of practical tips for every genre. Good for answering specific questions quickly.
Digital Photography School (opens provider site in a new tab)
Digital Photography School
Japanese added a pick
The flashcard app serious learners rely on. Start with a vetted core-vocabulary deck.
Japanese added a pick
Fast, free Japanese–English dictionary with kanji breakdowns and example sentences.
Mandarin added a pick
Free beginner units from the Open University, with audio and cultural notes.
Mandarin added a pick
Podcast lessons that explain tones and phrases patiently. Great for commute listening.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Implements the core structures in Python step by step. Good for learners who learn by typing.
French added a pick
A light daily habit for vocabulary. Combine it with real listening to make it count.
French added a pick
Free short courses from the Open University, from absolute beginner to intermediate.
Spanish added a pick
The best free dictionary and conjugation reference, with clear grammar guides. Bookmark it now.
Spanish added a pick
Structured podcast lessons with a teacher and a learner. Easy to fit into a commute.
Digital Marketing added a pick
The classic long-form SEO primer, kept up to date. Read it end to end once.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Free, thorough SEO courses from a tools company that publishes its own data.
Sales added a pick
Free, gamified modules on CRM and sales process. Especially useful if your team runs on Salesforce.
Salesforce Trailhead (opens provider site in a new tab)
Salesforce Trailhead
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Discovery calls are customer interviews. This teaches you to learn what buyers actually need.
Cooking added a pick
Four elements that make food taste good. Teaches you to cook without recipes.
Cooking added a pick
Tested recipes with cost per serving. Great for learning to cook well on a tight budget.
Startup Founding added a pick
Technion's four-course path from idea to business plan. Structured, practical, and graded.
Web Development added a pick
Structured, graded, and ends with React. The certificate helps if you're changing careers.
Graphic Design added a pick
Practical design tips and speed-design sessions. Easy to follow and heavy on real technique.
Personal Finance added a pick
Free Open University courses on managing money, budgeting, and financial decisions. UK-oriented.
Personal Finance added a pick
The SEC's plain-English investor education, with fraud warnings and fee calculators. US-focused.
Investor.gov (opens provider site in a new tab)
Public Speaking added a pick
Practical vocal tools — register, pace, pitch — in ten minutes. Try the warm-ups before your next talk.
Public Speaking added a pick
Stanford's hugely popular talk on speaking off the cuff. Practical techniques for impromptu moments.
Statistics added a pick
University of Michigan's applied statistics, taught through Python notebooks. Good for analysts who code.
UI/UX Design added a pick
The short, funny classic on usability. Readable in an afternoon, useful for a whole career.
UI/UX Design added a pick
A visual-design-first counterpart to Google's certificate. Stronger on layout, type, and interface craft.
Video Editing added a pick
Quick, practical Premiere and After Effects tips. Learn one technique at a time.
Video Editing added a pick
Friendly, thorough DaVinci Resolve tutorials, including color grading and Fusion basics.
Writing added a pick
Short story, narrative essay, and memoir taught by published authors, with peer workshops.
Writing added a pick
Highlights long sentences and passive voice. A blunt, useful mirror for wordy drafts.
Data Science added a pick
Hadley Wickham's tidyverse book. If you choose R, this is where to begin.
R for Data Science (2e) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund
Guitar added a pick
Slow, clear tutorials for thousands of popular songs. Learn the music that made you pick up a guitar.
Guitar added a pick
Berklee's structured introduction to technique, chords, and basic notation.
Photography added a pick
Michigan State's structured course from camera basics to composition and editing, with peer feedback.
Photography added a pick
Official editing tutorials with sample images. Learn to develop RAW files properly.
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Codecademy's free SQL course. Well-paced lessons in the browser, no database setup needed.
SQL & Databases added a pick
A structured, graded introduction aimed at analysts. Good if you want a certificate.
Deep Learning added a pick
Official, runnable tutorials. Start with "Learn the Basics" before any third-party course.
Japanese added a pick
Free story-based lessons from Japan's public broadcaster, with audio and text. Well produced.
Japanese added a pick
The textbook most universities use. Structured and thorough; pair it with its workbook.
GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (opens provider site in a new tab)
The Japan Times (GENKI)
Mandarin added a pick
The essential Chinese dictionary app, with handwriting input and flashcards. Install it first.
Mandarin added a pick
A light daily habit for characters and phrases. Add real listening to make progress stick.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Animations of every classic data structure and algorithm. Use it whenever a diagram would help.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Illustrated and friendly. The right book if algorithm textbooks have intimidated you before.
Grokking Algorithms, 2nd Edition (opens provider site in a new tab)
Manning Publications
French added a pick
A free audio course that has you constructing French sentences out loud from the start.
French added a pick
Friendly, structured podcast lessons. Perfect for learning on a walk or a commute.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Short browser exercises on syntax and basics. A warm-up before building anything real.
Spanish added a pick
Good for a daily habit and vocabulary. On its own it won't make you conversational.
Spanish added a pick
Vocabulary and grammar through everyday situations, with graded quizzes and structure.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Search, social, email, analytics, and e-commerce with portfolio projects. Broad and job-oriented.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Google's own explanation of how to be found in search. Cuts through most SEO myths.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Pure language drills without Xcode. Useful for getting Swift syntax down before tackling apps.
Rust added a pick
Walks through The Book on video, plus ecosystem news. For people who'd rather watch than read.
Sales added a pick
Research-backed persuasion for people who don't think of themselves as salespeople.
Sales added a pick
University of Michigan's practical negotiation course, with a real contract case. Useful for every deal.
Cooking added a pick
Recipes that explain why they work, tested obsessively. You'll learn technique while cooking dinner.
Cooking added a pick
Clear episodes on essential techniques — knife skills, eggs, sauces. Approachable and well produced.
JavaScript added a pick
Short lessons with an in-browser editor. Comfortable if a blank text file intimidates you.
Product Management added a pick
Darden's course on modern, agile product management. Useful structure for newcomers to the role.
Product Management added a pick
A step-by-step method for finding product-market fit. Concrete where many PM books stay abstract.
Startup Founding added a pick
The essays that shaped a generation of founders. Start with "Do Things That Don't Scale."
Graphic Design added a pick
Short, friendly lessons on layout and branding basics. Useful even if you later move to Adobe tools.
Graphic Design added a pick
Official hands-on tutorials with sample files. Learn the tool from its makers before paying for courses.
Personal Finance added a pick
Budgeting, credit, loans, taxes, and investing basics explained plainly, with practice questions.
Personal Finance added a pick
Community-written guides to low-cost, long-term investing. Start with the "Getting started" page.
Product Design added a pick
Practical guides to usability testing and surveys. Clear and tool-agnostic despite the vendor.
Public Speaking added a pick
MIT's legendary lecture on speaking and slides. Dense with rules you'll use forever.
Public Speaking added a pick
Eight minutes on the one idea every talk needs. The best short primer on talk structure.
Python added a pick
Browser-based projects with instant feedback. Good if video lectures make your attention drift.
Python added a pick
A tight write-run-check loop in the browser, no setup. Most modules need a paid plan.
Statistics added a pick
A free, peer-reviewed introductory textbook used in hundreds of courses. Excellent exercises.
Statistics added a pick
Josh Starmer makes p-values, distributions, and regression understandable. Great alongside any course.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Psychology principles behind good interfaces, one clear page each. Handy vocabulary for design reviews.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Official walkthroughs of auto layout, components, and prototyping. Learn the tool properly once.
Video Editing added a pick
Free official books and videos for a free professional editor. The best zero-cost starting point.
DaVinci Resolve training (opens provider site in a new tab)
Blackmagic Design
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Adobe's official hands-on tutorials. Start here if your workplace already uses Creative Cloud.
Writing added a pick
A bestselling novelist's full university course, free. Plot, character, and the business of publishing.
Writing added a pick
The standard free reference for grammar, punctuation, and citation. Answers "is this right?" fast.
Data Science added a pick
Short seaborn exercises that get you making sensible charts quickly.
Data Science added a pick
Spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, and R with a career focus. Recognized by many entry-level employers.
Guitar added a pick
The most complete free guitar course anywhere. Methodical, encouraging, and organized in grades.
Guitar added a pick
Friendly beginner lessons and songs in small steps. Ideal for your very first weeks.
Photography added a pick
Clear explanations of exposure, depth of field, and light, with interactive diagrams. Timeless fundamentals.
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An interactive book built on one real dataset. Teaches you to think in queries.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Solve a crime by querying a database. A fun, surprisingly effective way to practise joins.
SQL Murder Mystery (opens provider site in a new tab)
Northwestern Knight Lab
Deep Learning added a pick
Search, optimization, and neural networks in Python. A rigorous tour before specializing.
Japanese added a pick
Mnemonics that get hiragana into your head in a few days. Do this before anything else.
Japanese added a pick
A free, logical grammar guide that explains Japanese on its own terms, not by English analogy.
Machine Learning added a pick
Hands-on notebooks with real data in a few hours. Then enter a beginner competition.
Mandarin added a pick
A gentle, well-organized start covering pinyin, tones, and daily phrases. Consistently well reviewed.
Mandarin added a pick
Every syllable with audio. Get tones right early and everything later gets easier.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
A gentle, visual introduction to searching, sorting, recursion, and graphs.
French added a pick
Free exercises built around real TV clips, sorted by CEFR level from A1 to C1.
French added a pick
Radio France Internationale's lessons and slow news in French. Excellent listening practice.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Teaches Go and test-driven development together. Good habits from the very first chapter.
Go (Golang) added a pick
UC Irvine's structured introduction, including concurrency. Good if you want graded assignments.
Spanish added a pick
A free audio course that teaches you to build sentences by thinking, not memorizing. Remarkably effective.
Complete Spanish (Language Transfer) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Language Transfer
Spanish added a pick
Thousands of hours of comprehensible-input video sorted by level. Watch daily and understanding grows.
Digital Marketing added a pick
A free, certificate-bearing course on content, SEO, and nurturing leads. Vendor-flavored but solid.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Official training for Google Ads and Analytics. Required before you spend money on search ads.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Apple's step-by-step tutorials with finished sample projects. Polished and kept current.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Learn Swift on iPad or Mac through guided puzzles. Good for younger learners and total beginners.
Rust added a pick
Runnable examples for every core concept. Useful when prose explanations aren't clicking.
Rust added a pick
Google's internal Android training, open-sourced. A fast course for people who already program.
Sales added a pick
HubSpot's free course on modern, buyer-centred selling. A sensible foundation for any sales role.
JavaScript added a pick
Hundreds of bite-sized browser challenges ending in five certification projects. Great for daily practice.
JavaScript added a pick
Beautifully written and demanding. Better as a second pass than as your very first exposure.
Eloquent JavaScript, 4th Edition (opens provider site in a new tab)
Product Management added a pick
Free essays on empowered teams, discovery, and the PM role from the author of Inspired.
SVPG articles (Marty Cagan) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Silicon Valley Product Group
Product Management added a pick
Clear primers on roadmaps, backlogs, and working with engineers in agile teams.
Startup Founding added a pick
Y Combinator's free course on ideas, users, and fundraising. The best free founder curriculum.
Startup Founding added a pick
Essays and talks from YC partners on every stage. Search it before paying anyone for advice.
Web Development added a pick
Small projects built in the browser. You'll finish with a handful of basic but real pages.
Web Development added a pick
Google's modern CSS course: box model, flexbox, grid, and the cascade explained properly.
Graphic Design added a pick
Image-making, typography, shape, and color taught by CalArts faculty. A real art-school foundation.
Graphic Design added a pick
The fastest way to make any document look professional. Read "Typography in ten minutes" first.
Butterick's Practical Typography (opens provider site in a new tab)
Product Design added a pick
IDEO's free primer on the process many product teams still use. A good shared vocabulary.
Product Design added a pick
Free method cards and activities from Stanford. Great for running your first design workshop.
Python added a pick
The same Dr. Chuck material with graded assignments and a certificate, if structure keeps you going.
Python added a pick
MIT's intro lectures and problem sets. More computer science than syntax — an ideal second course.
Statistics added a pick
Complete, patient coverage from averages to inference, with practice for every skill.
Statistics added a pick
Brown University's visual introduction to probability and statistics. Beautiful, interactive, and short.
UI/UX Design added a pick
The most structured path into UX: research, wireframes, prototypes, and three portfolio projects.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Decades of research-backed usability guidance, free. Search here before inventing your own rules.
Nielsen Norman Group articles (opens provider site in a new tab)
Data Science added a pick
Written by pandas' creator. The definitive guide to cleaning and reshaping data in Python.
Data Science added a pick
A few hours of hands-on exercises. The quickest way to get comfortable with DataFrames.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Short interactive lessons that have you writing real queries within an afternoon.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Friendly talk-through lessons for complete beginners, with in-browser practice after each.
Deep Learning added a pick
Top-down: train real models in lesson one, then learn why they work. Free and excellent.
Deep Learning added a pick
Visual intuition for backpropagation, transformers, and attention. Watch before starting any course.
Machine Learning added a pick
The standard first ML course. Andrew Ng's teaching is famous for a reason.
Machine Learning added a pick
Google's fast, practical introduction with interactive visualizations. A solid overview in a weekend.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Sedgewick and Wayne's classic, free on Coursera. Rigorous implementations with excellent visual explanations.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Builds arrays, linked lists, hash tables, and trees in C. Superb foundations for everything else.
Go (Golang) added a pick
The official in-browser tour. Two or three evenings and you'll have covered the whole language.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Annotated example programs for every common task. The page you'll keep open in a tab.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Paul Hudson's free, structured daily course. The most complete free path into SwiftUI.
100 Days of SwiftUI (opens provider site in a new tab)
Hacking with Swift~100 hours
iOS & Swift added a pick
The official language book. Read the Language Guide chapters alongside any course.
Rust added a pick
The official book and the shared vocabulary of the Rust community. Read it cover to cover.
Rust added a pick
Small broken programs you fix one by one. Pairs chapter by chapter with The Book.
JavaScript added a pick
Thorough, modern, and free, with exercises every chapter. The best single resource for learning the language.
JavaScript added a pick
Mozilla's official guide. Pair it with the MDN reference pages you'll use for the rest of your career.
Web Development added a pick
Sets up a real developer environment on day one and makes you build. The most honest beginner path.
The Odin Project — Foundations (opens provider site in a new tab)
The Odin Project
Web Development added a pick
Mozilla's structured curriculum for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Accurate, accessible, and regularly updated.
Python added a pick
Harvard's CS50 rigor applied to Python alone. Problem sets are hard enough to make ideas stick.
Python added a pick
Dr. Chuck assumes nothing, which makes this the gentlest serious start for complete non-programmers.
Python for Everybody (opens provider site in a new tab)
Python added a pick
Teaches Python through real chores — renaming files, scraping pages, filling spreadsheets. Motivation built in.
Python added a pick
The official tour. Terse, but accurate and always current with the latest release.
