{"id":123,"date":"2017-09-19T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecoderschool.com\/blog\/a-brief-history-of-learning-to-code\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:50:19","slug":"a-brief-history-of-learning-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecoderschool.com\/blog\/a-brief-history-of-learning-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Learning to Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently ran across this super interesting blog<\/a> from David Patterson over at UC Berkeley, written almost four years ago. \u00a0Take a look at the graph he and Ed Lazowska from U-Dub put together:<\/p>\n

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Credit to David Patterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To add more color to that graph, Patterson notes that “At Stanford, where more than 90% of undergrads take computer science [note this was from 2013], English majors now take the same rigorous introductory CS course as Computer Science majors.” \u00a0I don’t remember my Intro to CS course as being all that easy, so kudos to those English and Philosophy and other majors that dove in!<\/p>\n

The fact that the movement to learn computer science, no matter your major or your future, started so long ago shows this trend has legs. \u00a0What’s happened since the end of this graph? \u00a0Plenty. \u00a0An incredibly amazing amount, in fact. \u00a0Enough for anyone to feel a little FOMO on a hockey stick:<\/p>\n