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Udacity: Teaching Thousands of Students to Program on Udacity with App Engine, Part Two
Cross-posted with the Google App Engine blog:This post is part two of a two-part series on how Udacity is using App Engine to teach thousands of students how to program online.Today’s guest blogger is Chris Chew, senior software engineer at Udacity, which offers free online courses in programming and other subjects. Chris shares how Udacity itself is built using App Engine.Steve Huffman blogged yesterday about how App Engine enables the project-based learning that makes his web development course so powerful. People are often surprised to learn that Udacity itself is built on App Engine.The choice to use App Engine originally came from Mike Sokolsky, our CTO and cofounder, after his experience keeping the original version of our extremely popular AI course running on a series of virtual machines. Mike found App Engine’s operational simplicity extremely compelling after weeks of endlessly spinning up additional servers and administering MySQL replication in…