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Udacity: Colo. State University Global Campus offers credit for Udacity class
Colorado State University-Global Campus, the nation's first 100% online, independently accredited public university, has announced that they will be offering full transfer course credit (three credits) for Udacity's Introduction to Computer Science. This is the first U.S. institution to formally accept a Udacity course for credit. International institutions such as University of Freiburg in Germany, and the University of Salzburg in Austria, had previously announced acceptance of Udacity's computer science courses for credit.After extensive review by CSU-Global's faculty, it has been determined that the course -- taught by Professor Dave Evans from the University of Virginia -- adequately covers the content in any typical three credit-hour introduction to computer programming course. Students coming out of Udacity's course acquire basic knowledge of Python and basic computer programming skills, as well as computer science theory."As a university, CSU-Global supports accessible and flex…