Google Teaches Programming Class At University Of Washington
Google class debuts at the UW via the SeattlePI reports that Google is holding a class at the University Of Washington to teach a unique style of programming. Google software engineer Chistophe Bisciglia dreamt up the idea to spend 10% of his Google time teaching a class on “creating programming prodigies and revamping the way […]
Barry Schwartz on February 20, 2007 at 8:58 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google class debuts at the UW via the SeattlePI reports that Google is holding a class at the University Of Washington to teach a unique style of programming. Google software engineer Chistophe Bisciglia dreamt up the idea to spend 10% of his Google time teaching a class on “creating programming prodigies and revamping the way colleges teach computer science.” The article explains that this course will “teach students to use 40 computers to solve problems such as how many times the word “mild” appears on the Internet and which “mild” is most relevant to Internet users.”
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.