Sections Search Campus Life Interest in Computer Science Surges Enrollment is way up, and more women are signing on 02.16.2016 By Senior lecturer Dave Sullivan says changes in the Introduction to Computer Science course CS 111 have made it more appealing to students in general and women in particular. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it is today. Enrollment in the program at BU has more than quadrupled over the past five years. “It’s popular in a totally unprecedented way,” says Mark Crovella, a College of Arts & Sciences professor and chair of computer science. Interest had previously peaked in 2000, he says, “and we have blown way, way past that.” Back at the turn of the century, when AOL was hot and Facebook founder Mark Z
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