Google Cloud Skill Boosts is awesome because they give you real sandbox labs AND the certificates are instantly downloadable. It's one of the best hands-on platforms for cloud beginners. More on reddit.com

In my opinion, you should consider starting at a two year community college to pursue an associates or a certificate. Depending on where you live, there is a good amount of aid available. I live in California and get a pell grant and a tuition waiver because of my income, so I’m actually getting paid to go to school. I also apply for every scholarship available to me that I can find and have received quite a few. I went back to school in my early thirties and it’s been such a great experience. I never had any interest in going back to school and had a lot of ego about it since I had gotten pretty far in life with skills I had developed in the live event production industry. However, I was craving a change and I just didn’t know where to start. I went to the career center at my school and took a bunch of aptitude and personality tests for free and then went over the results with a trained counselor who pointed me in a direction that I never would have dreamt of going on my own accord. Now, I’m transferring to a four year private school with no debt and a scholarship that covers 90%. I’m not an exception to the rule. I am just the result of someone that worked hard and made sacrifices like not going out to eat and staying home many times to read or write when I could have been socializing. The degree has already made a huge difference in my life and I’m not even finished with the BA yet. If you still feel stuck about the finances after exploring your options and talking to a counselor, wait and see what happens with the budget reconciliation bill this September. There is a big push to increase the pell grant to $13,000 a year and make the first two years of community college tuition free. Fingers crossed. More on reddit.com

Coursera has some completely free courses (most of them not so popular or from fancy institutions). Most of them have a 7-day free trial and then you need to pay. Prices vary, depends on the course. You can also complete/audit the paid courses for free but you will not receive any certifications and you will not be able to do the tests/quiz. More on reddit.com

Don't forget Practical Javascript from Watch and Code. https://watchandcode.com/p/practical-javascript It made the biggest impact when i started learning JS. Very different from most Udemy courses i watched in that period. More on reddit.com