Colleges that are struggling to attract more women and minorities to computer-science classes may want to consider offering a course similar to one at Stanford this fall.
Students at the university are flocking to a computer-science class on designing software applications for Facebook, says an article in Fortune.
Facebook’s $10-million grant program provides up to $250,000 to developers who build promising software for the social-networking site. And many students hope to get rich quick by designing a killer Facebook application. Of the more than 5,000 Facebook applications created since May, though, only four have attracted more than a million users. — Andrea L. Foster
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