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Google sponsors code class at university

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Steve Bryant
Steve Bryant
Feb 20, 2007
1 minute read
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Google recently wrapped up its first sponsored class at the University of Washington. The class, dreamed up by engineer Chistophe Bisciglia, was a five week course designed to teach students how to code the Google way.

The course teaches students how to use multiple computers to solve problems, rather than a single system. Also on cmapus: Microsoft, which donated the $7.2 milion computer science building, and Intel, which provides the computers.

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