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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online. If you’re curious about learning a programming language then you’re in luck: there’s no shortage of resources for learning how to code online.

50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

University-level courses, tutorials, cheat sheets, and coding communities all offer excellent ways to pick up a new language, and maybe even a new job, too. Read on, and you’ll discover 50 great places to learn how to code, for free, online. University Many big names in education including MIT and Stanford offer programming courses, absolutely free. General. The Anatomy of an Effective Homepage. As a general rule, your homepage will be the first encounter a visitor will have with your business.

The Anatomy of an Effective Homepage

Great care, therefore, should be taken to design and structure your homepage so that readers will digest and act on your business message. Below we’ve identified certain qualities that compose an effective homepage. We recommend you spend a few minutes with this infographic to see if your homepage’s current state is effective. Special thanks to @keanrichmond and @onextrapixel. Click on the infographic below to view a larger image: Big Nerd Ranch - Home. Free tutorials on HTML, CSS and PHP - Build your own website.

Sunlight Foundation. Www.learnstreet.com. Code for Philly Workshop #56 - Code for America Philly (Philadelphia , PA. November 19, 2013 · 5:00 PM Stop by Devnuts any time between 5pm and 10pm to work on your civic technology project, to discover active projects, or to begin/improve your coding skills through civic service.

Code for Philly Workshop #56 - Code for America Philly (Philadelphia , PA

No memberships are required, just bring a laptop be ready to jump into something. See for a full directory of members' projects This Week Have something you'd like to share with or present to the group? Some currently active projects looking for a hand include: • LocalWiki for Philly (Wikidelphia) • CodeForPhilly.org • AppsForPhilly.org Schedule 5pm - desks open 6pm - pizza followed by community announcements/demos 10pm - commit & quit Food Drive.

CSS Tutorial. Anybody can learn. Codecademy. Landing Your Dream Job, 5 tips on becoming a self-taught programmer. What you study does not determine what you will do for the rest of your life.

Landing Your Dream Job, 5 tips on becoming a self-taught programmer

Here’s how I went from writing marketing plans to building databases. In college, I bounced from studying one subject to another before settling on marketing. As part of a business degree, marketing seemed like a reasonable option, even though my heart was never really in it. After finishing my undergraduate degree, I went on to do my masters in International Business, prolonging the dreaded question: “what next?”. Given my studies, my career had to be in marketing, right? Being a fan of Wunderlist, I checked out the jobs page and saw an opening for Community Manager.

Android App Development for Beginners: Layout and UI Options, Part One. Over the next few tutorials, we'll be looking in more detail at the basic layout and graphical interface aspects of the Android API.

Android App Development for Beginners: Layout and UI Options, Part One

If you've been reading other tutorials in this series, you've already been creating basic layouts, buttons, and menus; now we're going to look in depth at the available layout and UI options, to give you more insight into how you can create the best visual user experience for your app. This first tutorial looks at LinearLayout, as well as at some basic concepts like element attributes.

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Nice collection of icon sets for your Linux Desktop with installation instructions. This is a nice collection of iconsets for your Linux Desktop, so if you are a fun of changing default themes of your Linux Distribution, then this post is for you.

Nice collection of icon sets for your Linux Desktop with installation instructions

I tried to collect the nicest and most updated icons themes existing in this moment, i included also a detailed howto install the themes for Ubuntu/ LinuxMint and Fedora based distributions. I tested the icon themes in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Beta1, icons did work just fine. 1- Faience: 2- Meliae Iconset theme 3- Gnome Colors Ubuntu users, use the following PPA: sudo apt-get install ppa:gnome-colors-packagers/ppasudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-colors. Top Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. Ubuntu 15.04 final beta is already out couple of weeks before.

Top Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

The final version of Ubuntu 15.04 will be released on coming April 23, 2015. Check the release notes for more details. Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta, And It’s Official Flavours Are available For Download This comprehensive tutorial describes how can we enhance Ubuntu 15.04, and other older versions such as Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 etc., further for day to day activities. Also, this article will show you some interesting insights and ideas about what you can and should do after a successful installation of Ubuntu latest desktop version.

Online Learning – Google for Entrepreneurs. Cloud Platform. Blogger 13 hours ago Backflip Studios scales mobile games with Google Cloud Platform Today’s guest blog comes from Dale Thoms, co-founder and CTO of Backflip Studios, the mobile game development studio.

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The company is behind popular titles such as DragonVale, Paper Toss and Ninjump, and has grown from three to over 100 employees... Read more on Blogger 2 days ago Using Puppet to Automate Google Compute Engine Today's guest blog post comes from Ryan Coleman, Puppet Forge Product Owner at Puppet Labs. For Entrepreneurs – Google for Entrepreneurs. NYC Open Data. Tools for Entrepreneurs: Introduction to APIs.