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Things you can learn free online

9/1/2013

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Free courses from top  universities

Choose a subject of your choice, select the institution you want to learn from and join a course. There is no prerequisite knowledge required for most courses and you get access to various videos, transcripts and notes. You can even earn yourself a certificate of course completion from Edx if you do all the homework and pass the exam for a particular course. 
https://www.edx.org

https://www.coursera.org/


Artistic skills
thevirtualinstructor.com -  you can find a list of art lessons, tutorials, articles and videos curated from around the web.

instructables.com — where you can learn how to do stuff as diverse as watermelon carving, making jewellery, puppets, and costumes.

How to Draw by ArtelPlus (for iOS and Android) is a good place to start.

Cooking
 Tips on basic cooking techniques at simplyrecipes.com (they also offer
free  apps).
reluctantgourmet.com -  the 'How to cook' tab will help you brush up on
roasting,  poaching, grilling, frying, braising, baking and everything in
between. 


A new language
The courses hosted on www.openculture.com are a pretty good place to start.

Duolingo -  is another great place to learn Spanish, English, French, German, Portugese or Italian.


Computer  programming
For javascript, jquery, PHP, Python and Ruby, head http://www.codeacademy.com/. The interactive website offers step-by-step instructions.

If you want to keep track of your course and resume from where you left off. A free iPad app called Treehouse can teach you Objective-C, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript,  PHP, Ruby, and SQL. .


Photography
To get started with the basics of photography, you should visit photographycourse.net.
At photo.net/learn - you'll find a handy collection of (regularly updated) articles and tutorials from photo professionals.





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