The Stanford Daily

CS department updates introductory courses

Adapting to industry shifts and student feedback, the computer science department has implemented various changes to its introductory courses, CS106 and CS107. This spring, a pilot version of CS106A, ...
Neowin

Stanford University dumps Java as an introductory programming language

It's pretty much known to anyone in the programming world that Java is one of the hardest languages to learn right off the bat; that is if you've never written a line of code in your life. Well, ...
FOX40 News

Stanford Engineering Opens Enrollment for Free Online Course that Teaches Beginner Coding Skills -- No Programming Experience Required

Taught by Stanford Engineering computer science faculty, Code in Place has scaled up to teach thousands around the world. "Anyone can code," explained Chris Piech, assistant professor of computer ...
The Next Web

Universities finally realize that Java is a bad introductory programming language

CS 106A is Stanford University’s introductory programming course. The module – which is also available to view on YouTube – introduces the fundamentals of coding in an accessible way, and lays the ...
The Stanford Daily

Computer Science Department implements pair programming

This quarter, Stanford’s Computer Science Department will implement “pair programming” in the introductory computer science (CS) courses CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106B: Programming ...