Awesome Certificates

About Awesome Certificates

A curated GitHub list aggregating over 20,000 hours of free courses and more than 200 certificate or digital badge programs across IT, computer science, design, and business. Entries are organized by category (including artificial intelligence, back-end development, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, data science, DevOps, security, and programming languages) and each listing specifies the course title, provider, difficulty level, duration in hours, and whether the reward is a digital badge or a certificate of completion.

Course providers referenced in the list include the University of Helsinki, Kaggle, Google Cloud Skills Boost, Amazon, Databricks, LinkedIn & Microsoft, DeepLearning.AI, HP Life Global, FreeCodeCamp, Postman, Saylor Academy, HackerRank, MongoDB, IBM/Cognitive Class, CertiProf, and Simplilearn. All courses listed are free to take, with the associated certificate or badge also free to obtain.

The repository accepts contributions through forking and pull requests against its readme file, following stated contribution and pull request guidelines, and provides channels for requesting missing certificates or reporting issues. It is intended for people seeking free, verifiable credentials in technical and business subjects.

Key features

• Curated list of 200+ free courses with certificates or digital badges across IT, CS, design, and business
• Covers topics including AI, back-end, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, data science, and security
• Lists course provider, difficulty level, duration, and reward type (badge or certificate) for each entry
• Community-contributed via pull requests with contribution and PR guidelines
• Supports requests for missing certificates and issue reporting for corrections

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