EDUCATION - Enrollment in Harvard’s computer science course skyrocketed

If Mark can do it, why can't others? Perhaps inspired by The Social Network, enrollment at Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science course has skyrocketed 580% in the last decade.Preliminary data from the college shows 771 students enrolled in CS50 in the current semester, up from 112 in 2004, Quartz reports. This makes the class one of the most popular on campus, second to an introductory economics course. A partnership with the education nonp ...

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