SPEAKER 1: It's hard to be a college student.
Especially first-generation college student.
So as professors, what are some, for example,
communities that you guys would recommend us to join or look into?
Just so that we have that camaraderie or that help that especially now
that we're in quarantine, we can't have with face-to-face?
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, It's a really good question.
I think I have been following on Reddit a number of communities which are nice.
I don't know if they are strictly university oriented.
Odds are it's a broader demographic than that.
But let me see if I can paste the URL of at least one subreddit here.
If unfamiliar, Reddit is a popular site for discussion.
So Learn Programming is actually a really nice one.
I've found the discussions there to be pretty healthy and very supportive
of students.
There's another one, let me see if I can find it real quick,
about computer science education, more generally.
I'll see if I can find that soon.
Brian, do you want to chime in though, with some thoughts too,
while I look for that?
SPEAKER 3: Yeah.
The other thing I'll mention are just CS50 Zone communities,
if you're interested in interacting with other CS50 students who are currently
taking or have taken any of our courses.
There is a link to all of our various different communities.
It is definitely a very active group of students
that are on Facebook that are communicating and forming community
together, as well as on Discord, that are always
chatting about CS50 or programming, or any of the specific problems.
So that can be a place where a lot of our own students online
have been able to find communities.
And we've noticed that these have been even more active now that more
and more people are staying indoors.
So definitely other people there to connect with potentially.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, I have the Discord chat.
It's been really helpful.
And especially, like I said, now that we're indoors,
it's nice to have that camaraderie again.
SPEAKER 2: Indeed.
And I can paste the link of all of CS50's communities,
which should appear in the chat room in just a moment.
That's a link to all of our own specific ones.
Then, the other subreddit it I was thinking
of which talks about life after college, computer science,
is this one here, CS Career Questions on Reddit.
You might like that too.
SPEAKER 1: OK, thank you.
SPEAKER 2: Both of those communities seem very supportive of people
asking questions of each other.