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gammalambda7 edited this page Oct 9, 2026 · 55 revisions

🌐 Remember the good old days when we browsed the AOL or Yahoo directories? The portal was a last-century thing! (And soon would the traditional search engine 🔍 be old-school) Well well this blogger is goint to be a senior 👴

COURSES

Check if college / local library has free access

General

Coursera / LinkedIn Learning / edX

The Great Courses /* Check Hoopla for access through library card: e.g., through my local library I can have 10 monthly Hoopla credits, and 1 credit lasts 7 days for unlimited access. Through Hoopla > library, appx. half of the courses in TheGreatCourses are accessible. */

Coding

Web-based Compiler: VS / CompilerExplorer / ✔️ OneCompiler / JDoodle

Tutorial: CSDIY / liaoxuefeng

Learning Platform: Codecademy / Sololearn / ProgrammingHub / W3CSchool // DataCamp

Lab: Jiki by Exercism

Lecture: Harvard CS50x, DJ Malan (On .edu, edX; YT: 2026, 2025; Course site: latest, 2025)

Portal: AnthologyOpenAccDataSciMat

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C

Lecture: Refer to Courses\Coding\Lecture\CS50x (It is mostly about C programming)

Lab: Exercism C track / Learn-C

Text: K&R, 2nd (PDF: text, scan) / King, 2nd (archive; YT: @michaeldems)

Tool/Manual: Manual-CS50

VB

IDE: twinBASIC /* A VB IDE still working in the 2020s. This is wild! */

R

Compiler: WOA (Win11-aarch64) // R-4.x-aarch64 cannot be recognized by RStudio on WOA; works ok on Positron

Text: r4ds / adv-r / hopr / artofr

Tutorial: Swirl /* Note: …is an interactive course; …needs local installation */

Lecture/Video: StatQuest / Havard R Basics (.edu; YT 2025) / CS50R

Portal: digoal/R

Linux

Text: The Linux Command Line, Shotts (pdf, pdf, epub, pdf/Int-4ed, archive/Int-3ed; official site)

Lab: cmdchallenge / linuxsurvival / bandit

Learning Platform: LabEx: Learn Linux, Linux Journey

Tool/Ref: ExplainShell

Portal: santosh373/Linux-Basics

CYBERFREECURITY

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