A free full-length Python book + a 25-hour database course from Cornell University

Here are this week's five links that are worth your time: 1. freeCodeCamp just published a free 25-hour Database Systems course from a Cornell University database instructor. You'll learn SQL, Relational Database Design, Distributed Data Processing, NoSQL, and more. (25 hour YouTube course): 2. We also published a full-length book that will teach you Python basics. This beginner's handbook includes hundreds of Python syntax examples. You can bookmark it and read it in your browser, or download a PDF version. (full book): 3. And I swear I'm not trying to overload you, but we also published a 6-hour course on how to configure and operate Linux servers. If you want to become a SysAdmin or DevOps, this should give your server skills a big boost. (6 hour YouTube course): 4. For some lighter reading, Jacob went way back in time to look at the first commit to the Git project's codebase. You can learn some C fundamentals by reading Linus Torvalds' original code, which now underpins the world's most widely-used version control system. (25 minute read): 5. And since you just finished reading that Python book – you did finish reading it, didn't you? 🙂 – why not learn how to use Python's powerful Flask Web Development Framework. You can code along at home and build your own ecommerce website. (6 hour YouTube course): And a quick update on the freeCodeCamp Data Science Curriculum Pledge drive: we're now up to 1,387 kind people who have donated. And we're over half way to our goal. We'll use these funds to hire experienced math and computer science teachers to design these new interactive coding projects. I've got a full curriculum outline ready for you, with tons of data science and machine learning projects all mapped out. If you haven't already, take a moment to read this. You can become a part of this as well: That's all for this week. It has been a busy week at freeCodeCamp. Quote of the Week: “You can have data without information. But you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran Happy coding. - Quincy Larson Teacher at I share useful things on Twitter at If these emails aren't worth your time, you can turn them off: