![A free, on-line computer programming course from Stanford University is reaching thousands of ... [+] learners thanks to the help of thousands of vol](https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/6474be2228e314604b9811f3/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&width=1200 "Stanford University’s ‘Code In Place’ Course Breaks New Online Ground")
Stanford University’s ‘Code In Place’ Course Breaks New Online Ground
A free, on-line computer programming course from Stanford University is reaching thousands of ... [+] learners thanks to the help of thousands of volunteer instructors.
Stanford University is once again offering its free, online Code In Place class, the third time the popular intro-to-coding course has been made available since its introduction in 202o. It’s a groundbreaking approach other colleges should emulate.
The brainchild of a Stanford University team that included computer science faculty members Chris Piech and Mehran Sahami, and colleagues Julie Zelenski, Ali Malik, Brahm Capoor, and Juliette Woodrow, the six-week course essentially duplicates the first half of CS106A (Programming Methodology), one of Stanford’s most popular courses, taken by almost 1,600 students every year. It teaches the fundamentals of computer programming using the Python language.
Piech, an assistant professor of computer science, and Sahami, the endowed chair of Stanford’s computer science department, developed the initial version of the course with their colleagues in about two weeks during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic when, because they were temporarily unable to teach in person, they redesigned CS 106A for a broad online audience.
