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Ever since edX had their IPO, I hesitate to call it free. Each edX course is free for a limited time now and their prices are way too high if you aren't interested in a certificate and the certificates aren't worth much of anything in the employment market. They need a $50 option for no certificate and "unlimited" course access. But with shareholders, would they ever consider such a thing?
The content isn’t exclusive to edX, though.
Harvard hosts it outside of edX.
https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/
That puts a bit of organizational overhead on the learner. The material is all there and organized, but it's not as conveniently presented nor does it mark your progress automatically. I like that they switched to GitHub code spaces and away from cloud9 which complicated things further.