How Programmers Can Make Money Online In College | Must For Coders

If you are a good programmer, then you have one of the high-income skills and get paid a good amount of money online.

And after being a coder, if you are not making money, then you are missing a huge opportunity of earning money. But don't worry, now after a few minutes, you will be aware of the ways to make money online through your programming skills.

Want to make money as a programmer? Here are the different legit ways you can start earning money in college.

10 sure ways to make money from coding online

1. Be a freelancer

The first and the best thing we can do is freelancing as a programmer. And it can be the best option for you.

Many teenage coders do freelance work only and make a good amount of money. It not only gives money but it gives good experience also.

It is also seen that the growth rate of coding jobs is 50% faster than other jobs in the market. So, the demand for freelance programmers has also increased. It is high time to start freelancing. Freelancing has its own benefits also. You can do your work from anywhere and anytime.

And if you do freelancing with dedication, you can grow as a professional programmer on freelancing platforms and can increase your income after getting good reviews from employers.

There are many freelancing platforms out there in the market. Choose one platform at the beginning which best suits you and your work.

2. Start a programming blog

Since if you are passionate about programming and have very good programming knowledge, then starting your blog in the programming niche can be your best decision.

Through blogging you not only will make money but also make your name famous in the programming industry. How awesome is that?

You just have to provide coding tips, tutorials and your programming knowledge to other people. It isn't that hard. Just start and be consistent in growing your blog because you can also make it your full-time gig and blogging is capable of generating your living.

You can earn by advertisements, affiliate marketing, selling your own products and many more.

If you want to start blogging as a student, then you would be interested to see:
How To Get Started With Blogging For A Student Without Any Investment 

3. Create a youtube channel

If you don't want to write, you can make videos on programming and publish on youtube.

Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world and one of the most visited platform. Nowadays you can earn a good amount of money through it.\

Youtube is always a better option than starting a blog. Youtube also improves public speaking and communication skills which have become so important nowadays in every aspect of life. You can also create a better bond with your viewer with youtube than a blog.

Yes, having both youtube and blogs can be a great strategy.   

Make videos of programming, coding, tips, tricks, tutorials and stuff like that related to programming. Engage your audience and increase your subscriber base. More the subscriber more will be views and more will be income.

Monetization ways are mostly the same as blogging. There are no such different methods to make money on youtube. 

So, what are you waiting for? Right now is the best time to start. Just start!!!

4. Become a technical freelance writer

Another way is to write articles for other websites or other bloggers. There are many sites who are in search of technical writers and who can write articles on tutorials, programming and stuff of coding.

You can be hired as a writer on freelancing platforms like Upwork.com, Fiverr and many more.

Some of the sites that pay for technical writing are InstantShift, Photoshop Tutorials, Sitepoint, Tuts+ Code, Tuts+ Vector and many more.

5. Become an online tutor

If you have a good knowledge of programming, then you can also teach it and provide knowledge to others.

Online tutoring can make you a high income if you get good reviews from other students and you become a top-rated teacher.

For online tutoring, you should have mastered the knowledge you gonna teach online and capable of express knowledge in the most understandable way.

To get started as an online tutor you can refer to this post:
How to be an online tutor as a college student without any experience

6. Make a course and sell it

There are many people who want to learn coding and programming. So why don't you teach them by providing a course on coding?

Making a course on programming will be useful in the long run. From selling courses, you will generate a passive income.

You can upload it on sites like Udemy, Skillshare, Opensesame and many more. It's easy to upload your course. But the main part is to reach out to people to make them buy your course.

Do the market and promote your course properly. Use best strategies, share it with your WhatsApp group, Facebook community, Instagram stories and other social media platforms where the user base is more.

You can also publish your course on your blog/website if you have one. It can also make you a good amount of money and you have already an audience ready for your course.

You should have quality content to be successful. Making money is easy if you have good knowledge and great content to provide. Focus on your content and make it unique, be master of your niche.

7. Publish an eBook

You can also do one thing that is writing an ebook. It is not that too hard, you can write a small ebook and publish it. In the future, it may be your good passive income source.

Your ebook topic should be micro-niche in programming to make it focused on a particular audience and you can target them easily.

You can publish your ebook on amazon kindle, your own blog/website and there are many other platforms to sell. But I would recommend the kindle and your own site (if you have one) only. They will give you the best results.

Marketing and promoting your ebook is the main thing you have to do properly. Because many people can't do it properly and got no results.

8. Sell your own developed apps/games

If you are an app developer or a game developer, then you can create an app and sell it on android play store or ios app store. It is a great way to make passive income.

If you know Swift or Objective-C, you can create an ios app and launch it on the app store and sell it to people by the means of different media.

There are also many automatic coding apps that make apps in few steps and in small time. You can use them to create your app.

After that, you can earn money by putting ads in your app using the Google AdMob tool. And creating an app will also improve one achievement to your portfolio. 

9. Take part in online coding contests/challenges

This is an interesting method to make money using coding. You can participate in programming challenges and win prize money. This method will also improve your programming knowledge and practice.

Some of the best websites which provide these coding contests are TopCoder, CodeChef, HackerEarth, HTML5contest and many more.

If you know coding and programming, you can create a profile on these websites and there are always some coding challenges that are going on, you can take part and win big prize money/job offers/goodies and much more.

10. Sell your own themes and templates online 

If you are a good front end developer, then you can also make themes and plugins and sell them online to make money.

You can make themes/templates for WordPress whose plugins are in high demand. So, if you make a good and useful WordPress theme or plugin, you can earn an excellent deal of money.

You can monetize it by making it premium or if you make it free, then you can earn by ads or donations.

Conclusion

Any person with good programming skills can earn money in numerous ways and can make a full-time income through these methods.

It is not that hard to make money coding online but you have to make them work for you. Do choose your methods to make money online by programming as a student. 

If you have any suggestions that you think I should add-on, please write in comments and also tell me if you have any doubts regarding making money online by coding.

How are you making money by programming online? Please tell us in the comment section.