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Udacity: Py-dacious Course Hits Pi-dacious Milestone
CS101 celebrated a milestone this week when the 314,159th student enrolled to learn introductory computer science and create a search engine using Python. This is a “Pi-dacious” (or is that “Py-dacious”?) deal! Our first thought was, “Wow, who are these amazing students? Where are they from, and what do they enjoy about CS101?” To fully appreciate the breadth of scope that comes into play with 314,159 students, we pulled together some fun stats around our CS101 students. Enjoy! Hello, world! We have folks tuning in from 168 different countries, with the Top Ten ranked as follows: 1. United States 2. India 3. United Kingdom 4. Germany 5. Canada 6. Spain 7. Brazil 8. Australia 9. Russia 10. Greece In tribute to the entire, enormous CS101 classroom, here’s an image made from the gravatars of all forum commenters from all over the world. This isn’t all 314,159 faces from CS101, but it shows all the folks who spent time with us in the…