online software courses

The O'Reilly School of Technology offers hands-on online courses that might be what you're looking for. You can take individual classes or work toward a certificate.

Here are some example courses:

• Introduction to HTML and CSS
  
• Linux/Unix 1: The Unix File System
  
• Introduction to PHP
  
• Perl 1: Introduction to Perl
  
• Python 1: Beginning Python

You can find more information about the O'Reilly School of Technology and available courses at http://www.oreillyschool.com/.

You might also be interested O'Reilly's videos, which are available on a variety of topics and in some different styles. Some are tutorials that teach you about a technology and walk you through examples, others are recorded conference sessions, and others are recorded master classes are courses. You can find our videos at http://oreilly.com/videos/.

If you like video courses, you might also want to check out http://www.lynda.com/ and http://peepcode.com/.

I hope this helps!

Rachel

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I studied at the O'Reilly School of Technology and I liked a lot their on-line courses, it will be easier to complete the course if you have good research skills. Don`t worry about having on-line courses, they are legit and now there are so many entertaining software available that learning on-line is interesting and useful.

You can find a lot of online software courses on the internet, finishing them makes you able to find a high payed job and in this way you can better support your family. Don`t be afraid to try one of the courses, you will learn a lot of things that will help you in the future.