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This may be somewhat misleading, because I believe the number had fallen a lot before 2004. I.e. it may have gone up less in 15 years than in 10.
by pg 13y ago
This may be somewhat misleading, because I believe the number had fallen a lot before 2004. I.e. it may have gone up less in 15 years than in 10.
- joshbetz 13y agoI think enrollment was down everywhere between 1999 and around 2004. I've heard that it's back to a .com bubble level.
- mlchild 13y agoThat's fair, but I think there's more than one causal factor. Of course, the rise in programming in culture plays a role, but I think David Malan might be more important—I shopped CS50 the year before he started and took it a year later from him, and he's extraordinary. He has reportedly made it his mission to make it the biggest and most popular class at Harvard, and is nearly there. It's been an incredibly well-oiled operation from the beginning, but now the level of support, the project fair, his lectures, etc., are finely honed. If someone could do/had done the same thing to CS51, I might have fonder memories of my first Lisp and object-oriented experiences...