Python is one of the most beginner-friendly languages to start with, and it's now FREE to learn on Scrimba. 🐍

New course, Learn Python, is live and free! 🐍 Start from zero and build three real projects along the way: an expense-splitter, a word game, and a queue manager. Stuck on a concept? Hit Explain on any scrim for an on-the-spot walkthrough. 🪄 Built for anyone who's never written code before.

We've just released our newest innovation, Explain, into the wild! It allows you to create "Explainers": AI-narrated video guides that break down absolutely anything confusing, in easy-to-understand terms. Explain is not just for code, although it excels in that domain too.

Did you know that you can watch all Scrimba courses with captions? 🌍 Captions are available now in: - English - Arabic - Bengali - German - Spanish - French - Portuguese - Hindi - Chinese - Japanese With more languages on the horizon soon. Which language captions would you like to see?

Our Cybersecurity course is available FREE this weekend only, starting NOW! 🫶 Now's your chance to get clued up on these Cybersecurity essentials: 💥 Threat Modelling and OWASP 💥 Authentication and Identity 💥 Input and Data Safety 💥 Rate Limiting and Throttling 🔗 scrimba.com/cybersecurity

We gave our Frontend Developer Path the wrong name. When it first launched, it contained HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and that was pretty much it. So Frontend Developer Path was the perfect name.

🧠 Fancy a five-minute daily brainteaser? Miss hand-coding CSS just for fun? Our CSS Challenges course will be right up your street! It's packed with 25 fun styling tasks to help you keep your CSS skills sharp in an age where AI writes a lot of code.

Saturday is nearly here, and with that comes your weekly dose of code news, views, and blues via the Scrimba newsletter. This week, we are sharing Scrimba design updates, shining a light on awesome Scrimba students and, as ever, an adorable Scrimba pet 🐱 Link to subscribe in the comments 😊

Did you know that Scrimba now has a Cybersecurity course? 🔐 It contains 5 hours of bang up-to-date know-how on authentication, rate limiting, throttling, threat modelling, and more. Now that AI can write a lot of code, don't let this be the essential basics you skip! 💪 scrimba.com/cybersecurity

Just letting you know that docs.scrimba.com is up! In the age of fast-moving tech, AI, and all that, we wanted to create a space where things slow down. Even though we're probably all AI coding these days, there's something different about slowing down, reading, and going old school with things.

Docs Done Different | Scrimba Docs

Contextualized handbooks, interactive challenges, projects, and courses in one place to learn fundamentals and start building.

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Part 3 of Learn Next.js is here, and this is where your app grows up 🌊 Static data is out. SQLite is in. Scrimba fave Rachel Johnson walks you through the full data layer from scratch.

Captions just landed on Scrimba in 8 languages: 🌍 English 🌎 Español / Spanish 🌍 Português / Portuguese 🌏 Français / French 🌎 Deutsch / German 🌍 العربية / Arabic 🌏 हिन्दी / Hindi 🌎 বাংলা / Bengali Now live across all 70+ courses and all 4 career paths.

The Deployment section is live in the Backend Developer Path. 🚀 Getting an app running locally is one thing. Pushing it to production, keeping it running, and debugging it when something goes wrong is another. This section shows you how it's done!

Continuous Integration (CI) is how professional dev teams keep their codebase clean and their deploys stable. Now it's in the Backend Developer Path, taught by Don the Developer.

🔒 It's never too early to start thinking about security! We've just launched a five-hour course to get you up to speed with the cybersecurity fundamentals every dev needs to know: 💥 Threat Modelling and OWASP 💥 Authentication and Identity 💥 Input and Data Safety 💥 Rate Limiting and Throttling

⏰ LAST CALL: 24 hours left for free Scrimba access! Still available until tomorrow: - All 4 learning paths - 50+ Pro courses - AI code feedback - Coding challenges + certs - Discord access Time's running out ⏳

💝 Valentine's gift for devs: Everything on Scrimba is FREE this weekend! 48 hours of unlimited access to: - All 4 learning paths - 50+ Pro courses - AI code feedback - Coding challenges + certs Feb 14-15 only ⏰

Ever feel like Git is magic you’re *supposed* to understand… but don’t? 😅 Learn Git & GitHub is a thorough, hands-on course that takes you from “I’ll just zip the folder” to confidently collaborating like a real developer in under 2 hours. 🔥

Want to build with AI but overwhelmed by where to start? 🤯 Intro to AI Engineering (refreshed for 2026) is a hands-on course for developers taking their first steps with AI. You'll build Gift Genie, a real AI-powered app that turns natural language into gift suggestions.🧞

Merge conflicts haunting your dreams? 👻 Not for much longer! 12 new Git & GitHub lessons are now live: fetch, log, stash, revert, reset + all the essentials you need to know to level up your workflow. Share your scariest Git moment below; we've all been there! Link in comments 👇 #GitHub

2026’s first Townhall is happening today 🚀 Join us live as our CEO Per Borgen chats with @thomaspchant.bsky.social and Leanne Rybintsev about what’s coming this year. 🎙️ Tune in & drop your questions in the chat 🗓️ Tues 13 Jan at 5 PM UTC+1 🏠 Join us on Discord 👇 discord.com/channels/684...

Backend Path Update 🚨 The cybersecurity section just got expanded! Learn how authentication really works, from sessions and cookies to JWTs, OAuth, and common pitfalls, taught by @RachelKTYJ. Essential knowledge for anyone building backend systems. 👉 scrimba.com/the-backend-...

Belated Happy New Year! Two people liked, reposted and commented, so we decided to gift both with 1 year of Pro 🥳 Congrats to@tmbrn9.bsky.social and @fplcode.bsky.social for winning 🥇 Keep an eye out for more competitions throughout the year!

Scrimba@scrimba.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're closing 2025 with one last giveaway 🎉 To win 1 year of Scrimba Pro, simply: 1️⃣ Like this post 2️⃣ Repost 3️⃣ Comment your learning goal for the year ahead One winner will be drawn on January 5 ✨ Bonus competitions 👇

We're closing 2025 with one last giveaway 🎉 To win 1 year of Scrimba Pro, simply: 1️⃣ Like this post 2️⃣ Repost 3️⃣ Comment your learning goal for the year ahead One winner will be drawn on January 5 ✨ Bonus competitions 👇

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We got a side quest for you this time… 🎁 Head over to LinkedIn and Instagram for this year’s final big giveaway. Thanks for learning with us, and happy holidays from Team Scrimba ✨ 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-... 👉 www.instagram.com/p/DSnAUCXkftd

Did you know that Scrimba now covers the entire web dev journey – Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, and AI Engineering? All our courses are hands-on, project-based, and self-paced, using our unique scrim tech designed to get you coding faster. 👉 scrimba.com/courses

New Course Alert 🚀 Context Engineering by Arsala Khan is now live! Learn system prompts, context windows, token optimization, and how to stop your AI apps from forgetting or hallucinating. Build real chat features using Vercel’s AI SDK + OpenRouter. 👉 scrimba.com/learn-contex...

The wait is over - it’s finally here! After months of work behind the scenes, our brand new Backend Developer Path is now live 🚀 👉 scrimba.com/the-backend-... Here’s what’s inside 👇

Only 1 more sleep to go 🚀 Join @thomaspchant.bsky.social and Leanne from the Scrimba team for a Townhall Special celebrating the launch of the Backend Path tomorrow ✨ 🎙️ Tune in, listen, and ask your questions 🗓️ Nov 13 at 5 PM UTC +1 👇 discord.com/channels/684...

Scrimba@scrimba.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The official countdown has begun ⏰ This Thursday, we’re launching our brand new Backend Developer Path - the most requested path in Scrimba history. Are you excited? We sure are! To celebrate, we’re giving away a free 1-year Pro subscription 👇

Woop woop! Only 2 days left 🥳 With the launch of our new Backend Path, Scrimba is now your one-stop destination to master it all - Frontend, AI Engineering, Fullstack, and Backend! Ready to dive in? 👇