6 Skills during Quarantine

Devesh Raj
8 min readApr 12, 2020

As we know that now the whole world is facing a pandemic COVID-19.
Due to the Corona Virus infection complete world has been shutdown. Even all the companies, colleges, universities are completely closed, everyone is lockdown at their home.
This is the best time to learn new things and also for productivity.
Anyone can learn anything into this lockdown period.

6 Skills anyone can learn during this Quarantine to earn well.

  1. Coding
Learn Coding

2. Photography

Learn Photography

3. Cooking

Learn Cooking

4. Graphic Designing

Learn Graphic Designing

5. Blogging

Learn how to write a blog

6. New Languages

Learn languages and develop your skills

Online Coding Classes and Programs to Learn to Code for Free and worthy

1. CODECADEMY

Codecademy is an online learning platform that offers free coding classes in programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, HTML, and CSS.

Start with these free programming classes:

2. UDEMY

Udemy bills itself as an online learning marketplace, hosting 130,000+ user-created courses on all kinds of topics (including over 2,000 coding-related classes). While some of Udemy’s offerings are paid (costing $20-$200 per course), there are plenty of free coding classes as well, including some shorter Tech 101-type courses that teach code for beginners.

Start with these free coding classes:

3. SKILLCRUSH’S FREE CODING CAMP

Skillcrush’s Free Coding Camp is our totally beginner-friendly intro to tech, techies, and kick-ass careers that you can complete in less than five minutes a day. Delivered straight to your inbox, you will learn how to code in the simplest terms possible — and even get to try writing your own code! — so you can see if learning coding is the right move for you…

Start right here.

4. COURSERA

Coursera is an online learning platform that hosts content from top universities, including over 100 coding classes. If you’re ready to learn how to code, you could do worse than start here. Coursera’s classes are free to audit.

Start with this free coding course:

5. EDX

EdX is another university-backed online learning platform with content from schools like Harvard and MIT. Like Coursera, many of EdX’s classes are free to audit, including classes on different programming languages, as well as some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript options.

Start with these online coding classes:

  • Creative Coding (This course from NYU “will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming, using code as a method for self-expression in a variety of media, such as 2D graphics, animation, image, and video processing.”)
  • Writing Professional Code (from the people at Microsoft)
  • HTML Coding Essentials (from the coding class masters at W3C)

6. MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare is part of an MIT initiative to publish ALL of the educational materials from its courses online for free. Sound too good to be true? It’s not! Aaaaand, that includes plenty of intro to programming and other tech and coding for beginners type classes.

Start with these coding classes if you want to get more specific:

7. KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational platform dedicated to providing FREE online educational tools. That includes a robust selection of coding classes.

Try these free coding classes:

8. WEB FUNDAMENTALS

Web Fundamentals is a Google project to provide free, open-source, online coding lessons and tutorials to the masses.

Try these tech and coding tutorials:

9. W3SCHOOLS

w3schools is a free online learning platform dedicated to coding and web development. Of this list, this coding resource has been around maybe the longest so yes, they know exactly how to teach you to code.

Start with:

10. CODE.ORG

Code.org is a non-profit website dedicated to encouraging all people (but with a focus on school-aged students) to learn to code online. Don’t let that put you off though: we’re all coding beginners after all. (There’s a section for beyond K-12 coding lessons, too.)

Start with:

11. CODEWARS

Codewars adds some quirk to the proceedings by offering free coding classes with a martial arts theme. Solving specific coding “katas” (a term for training exercises in karate) will earn you ranks and honors as you move your way to become a bonafide coder. Who said learning to code online couldn’t be fun? Codewars also offers one of the more diverse lists of programming languages. Choose free coding classes on:

Plus lots more — meaning you can decide what to prioritize when learning how to code.

12. CODECONQUEST

codeconquest is a full-service, free learn-to-code platform offering onsite tutorials and reviews of premium coding sites. More text-heavy than some of the other resources on our list — but some people learn best by reading!

Try these free coding tutorials:

13. GA DASH

GA Dash is the free arm of the paid coding school General Assembly. This free course teaches the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a user-friendly and interactive way with the same level of quality as other paid GA classes. Think of it sort of like a $0 coding Bootcamp. It will absolutely get you started learning to code for free.

14. UDACITY

Udacity is an online coding school with a mix of free and paid classes (around 200 of their coding classes — what they call “nanodegrees” — are free).

Try these free coding classes before diving into a full course:

  • Intro to Programming (This coding class includes lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python)
  • Version Control with Git Class (This free Git class takes about four weeks to complete and Udacity says it translates easily into their React program — or, if you like a real-talk vibe, add on our React course when you sign up for our Front End Developer course!)
  • Intro to HTML and CSS (This free coding class is exactly what it sounds like — the ideal starting point for total coding beginners.)

15. TUTS+

Tuts+ is an online tutorial library featuring over 20,000 free tutorials (thousands of those dedicated to coding and tech topics).

Try these tutorials to learn how to code:

16. THE ODIN PROJECT

The Odin Project is a coding resource for absolute beginners that offers a free, open-source curriculum. An ideal option for anyone wanting to learn to code online.

17. BENTO

Bento is a site that curates free coding classes from around the web and structures them into a comprehensive curriculum.

18. BITDEGREE

BitDegree is an online learning platform with free and paid classes dedicated to coding skills, as well as general business, blockchain, and design classes.

19. CODE AVENGERS

Code Avengers…ASSEMBLE! Ok, I’ll stop. But really, Code Avengers is an online platform with a mix of free coding classes and premium courses.

20. SOLOLEARN

SoloLearn is an online and mobile learning platform with free coding classes in 13 different programming disciplines.

21. FREECODECAMP

freeCodeCamp is a non-profit that advertises itself as “dedicated to teaching the world how to code for free.”

Bonus: If you’re interested in even more coding classes for absolute beginners, try our roundup here.

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HTML Courses and Tutorials

22. HTML.COM

HTML.com hosts a free HTML tutorial for absolute beginners. If you’re ready to learn how to code for free, you could do worse than start with something this straightforward.

23. W3SCHOOLS HTML TUTORIAL

w3schools offers this free HTML tutorial, which is ideal for anyone wondering how to learn to code and overwhelmed with the idea of starting. Consider this your step one.

24. LEARN-HTML.ORG

Get your free, interactive HTML tutorial on at Learn-HTML.org.

25. HTML DOG

Are you ready to learn HTML, dawg? Then head over to the HTML tutorials at HTML Dog.

26. CODECADEMY INTRODUCTION TO HTML

Codecademy has free courses on all things coding, so you’d best believe they have an intro to HTML. The ideal starting point when you’re just starting to learn how to code.

27. CODECONQUEST FREE HTML TUTORIAL

Conquer the most fundamental of all coding skills (HTML) with this codeconquest tutorial.

28. MTechViral School for Flutter & Dart

Anyone can learn Flutter & Dart with MTechViral School.

29. Dayal Educational Center for MS Excel, Tally, and other basic Courses.

Dayal Educational Center is providing all types of basic computer courses like HTML, JAVA, PYTHON, WEB, TALLY, MS EXCEL, and so many courses.

Learn Online Photography

Learn Online Photography: How to Take Amazing Photos for Beginners & Advanced Users. Join Over 40 Million People Learning Online with Udemy.

Photography for beginners

Photography Masterclass: A Complete Guide to Photography

Learn Online Cooking

There are so many online Cooking Channels on YouTube.

So please utilise your Quarantine and develop/ polish your skills.

Devesh Raj

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Devesh Raj
Devesh Raj

Written by Devesh Raj

Map Analyst at Google Maps. Speaker at Google Developer Group. Ex-CTO of Foodifi #Passionate #Maps, #Android Developer. #Entrepreneur #YouTuber #Speaker

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