In today’s technology-driven world, there is a significant job/student gap within computer science. Clearly, a background in computer science improves employability and opens up many career opportunities.
There are currently 600,000 open computing jobs throughout the U.S. By 2020 it is projected that there will be 1 million more computer science jobs than students learning computer science.
Because of the Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code, edX.org pulled together a list of free computer science courses to help teachers, students and professionals learn programming skills.
Useful Resources
- More edX computer science courses
- Mashable guide to programming languages for designers, app developers, content managers
- 11 popular programming languages that can you help land a job (Business Insider)
- 30 tech skills to earn over $110,000 of salary
- Today’s most popular programming languages.
