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RustBeginner
Microsoft Learn's official getting-started path for Rust. Covers fundamental syntax, the ownership model, common collections, error handling, and modules. Browser-based exercises and knowledge checks throughout. Free with a Microsoft achievement.
C#Beginner
Microsoft Learn's official C# learning path. Covers syntax, variables, methods, classes, collections, LINQ, and async programming through interactive browser-based exercises. Free and earns a Microsoft achievement on completion.
C#Intermediate
Microsoft Learn's end-to-end .NET path. Covers building console apps, web APIs with ASP.NET Core, working with Entity Framework, and deploying to Azure. Interactive exercises throughout. Free with a Microsoft achievement.
DevOpsIntermediate
Microsoft Learn's primary DevOps path (replaces the retired AZ-400 Get-Started path). Covers source control with Git, GitHub workflows, branching strategies, Azure Boards, GitHub Projects, and applying DevOps practices at scale. Aligns with the AZ-400 certification.
Cloud ComputingBeginner
Microsoft Learn's first learning path for the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals certification. Covers cloud computing concepts, deployment models, and shared responsibility in the cloud. Part one of a four-part Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure series that maps to the full AZ-900 exam.
CybersecurityBeginner
Microsoft Learn's path for the SC-900 certification. Covers security, compliance, and identity concepts, Microsoft Entra (Azure AD), and Microsoft security solutions. Free with an aligned cert.
Generative AIBeginner
Microsoft's open-source 11-lesson course on building AI agents. Covers agentic design patterns, tool use, RAG, multi-agent workflows, and production deployment. Hands-on with code samples in every lesson.
Head to head
Judging Microsoft Learn on its own only gets you so far. Each page below puts it head to head with one other platform on cost, certificates, and how deep the free material goes, and every one of them ends in a pick rather than a shrug.
They run in order of how much subject matter the two platforms share, so the near-substitutes for Microsoft Learn come first and the ones that barely overlap sit at the end. Each card names what the other platform is best at, which is usually enough to tell whether the comparison is worth your time.
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