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Udacity: Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity with App Engine, part 1: Steve Huffman
Cross-posted with the Google App Engine Blog: This post is part one 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 Steve Huffman, founder of Reddit and Hipmunk. Steve recently taught a web development course at Udacity, which offers free online courses in programming and other subjects. Steve shares his experience using Google App Engine to teach the course. This past spring I had the pleasure of teaching a course for Udacity, an online education company putting high quality college level courses online for free. I was recruited to Udacity by a former college professor and friend of mine, Dave Evans, Udacity's VP of Education.When I was a Computer Science student at the University of Virginia, I was fortunate to take a cryptology course taught by Professor Evans. He presented us two ways to get an A in this course. We could either do it the old fashioned way--do well on tests and homewor…