Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Five basic courses, each one hour of video or about 20 lessons, in HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. All taught by the same instructor, so expect good continuity of style and content between the courses. 

https://store.gizmag.com/sales/the-5-hour-developer-freebie-bundle#

Signing up is clumsy simply because you have to enroll in each course separately, but it's a bit less shaggy if you start out by setting up free accounts at both Gizmag.com and StackSkills.com, the course provider. Otherwise, you have to do these things during the course enrollment process.

Now, follow the link provided above. You need to "share" this on FB (nothing's free, right?!) and I just said "Checking this out" or words to that effect. When you've "shared" to FB, the "GET IT" button is activated. Click that, and you'll get a confirmation page. (Sigh.) Click "Redeem Purchases Now", and you'll come to the page where the courses and their corresponding coupon codes are listed.

We're closing in on it! 

Now, for each course, follow this Yellow Brick Road:
1. Right click in the coupon code box and select "copy". Pay no attention to the "slash/circle" cursor in this box which internationally means "stop" or "access prohibited", so I've no idea why they use it. 
2. Click on the link button directly above the coupon code box. You'll be taken to the StackSkills enrollment page for that course.
3. Click "Enroll for $29" or whatever it actually says.
4. On the next page, pay no attention to the payment information section, which will disappear when you apply the coupon code - you'll never need to enter any credit card info, etc.:
a. Click on "Redeem Coupon" and a text box will appear to the left. 
b. Paste in your coupon code.
c. Click "Redeem Coupon" again - the price will be discounted by the full amount and the total will change to FREE.
5. On the confirmation page, follow the link to the course.

Rinse and repeat for each course. It's a pain you can't enroll in all as a bundle, but...the price is right.

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