Carta's hours-per-week feature is definitely your friend here. :D Here are some of my suggestions:

• CS 51 + CS 52! CS Studio is a really fun class and great way to use your CS skills for social good! Definitely more going on than in this class, since you are expected to build something by the end, but you will have a team to support you and there's no letter grade at stake. Applications will probably open in the next couple of weeks -- join our mailing list to get notified when they open!
• CS 106L, if you're interested in learning C++ standard libraries (that is, what's used in the "real world," not just the Stanford version you see in 106B).
• CS 109, if you're okay/good with math/probability. 109 has a reputation of being the chillest class in the CS core. At the end you do some really cool machine learning stuff that totally blew me away! That said, it is still a 5 unit class, and the only all-nighter I've ever had to pull was when I severely underestimated how long the last 109 homework would take.
• CS 124, if you're interested in NLP (e.g., if you thought week 3 of this class was interesting!). It's 4 units and generally pretty chill, with the exception of the first assignment (writing a ton of regex) and the final (group) project (building a pretty robust chatbot).
• CS 182, if you're interested in ethics (which I assume you are if you're in this class!) and are okay with writing. I haven't taken this class yet (although it's definitely on my list!), but my friends who have said it is fairly similar to stuff we will be talking about week 6.

Yes, absolutely! You could treat the emojis (or whatever character(s) in question) just like how we treated the words in class week 3 and do the exact same process! Of course, you will need data that comes from a source that has a lot of emojis, but Twitter definitely fits that bill!

Yes!! Definitely keep an eye out for CS+SG's fellowships program! This is a program where the fellowship subteam matches students who apply with local non-profits/companies that have a social good-based mission to work together in a summer internship. Applications will open in winter (probably mid January), and you should join our mailing list to get the latest info!

Great question! While there are lots of ways to engage with ethics within the CS major, you might also consider Symbolic Systems and STS (Science, Technology, and Society) if you'd like to embed ethics even more deeply in your undergraduate education. You might also consider looking at the Ethics in Society program, which offers an Ethics and Technology minor.

The MERN stack is a great way to build an entirely JavaScript web application. You can learn more about it here.

That's a big question. You should talk about it with Katie!

Thanks for these great questions! Our mission is to create a community of technologists, designers, and thinkers passionate about maximizing the benefits of technology and mitigating its harms. Our end-of-year booklet highlights all our key initiatives, projects, and impact from the most recent school year: bit.ly/cssg-eoy-2021.

To summarize, we lead several student-run courses (CS 106S, CS 51+52 "Studio", CS 21SI "AI for Social Good"), the tech-for-good Fellowships program, discussions, education outreach, and Impact Lab (which is a research lab connecting students to tech for good projects).

To stay updated on our events and projects, join our mailing list by signing up here — bit.ly/cssg-interest-2122. If you'd like to join CS+Social Good, our applications are currently open till Saturday, October 2nd, at bit.ly/cssg2122. Note that you do not need to join CS+SG to attend discussions events, or apply for opportunities like Fellowships, Impact Lab, or Studio.

Not very - as long as you are comfortable with CS106A-level material (e.g., loops, conditionals, arrays), you will be fine!

What a great opportunity for some self-promo!

I would strongly recommend you apply to CS+SG's fellowship and/or Impact Lab programs! The CS+SG fellowship program tries to match Stanford students with local social-good-adjacent non-profits looking for would-be interns with some CS experience to help them over the summer. Impact Lab is a CS+SG program that pairs CS students with social-impact-focused Stanford research projects. Both are fantastic opportunities that frosh have often been involved in in the past, including frosh with no prior intern/research experience.

And speaking of various CS+SG programs, I can't forget about Studio! Studio is a two-quarter pair of CS courses (CS 51 and CS 52, winter and spring). In the first quarter, students work with local community partner organizations to identify a problem and plan an app/website/whatever to go about trying to solve it, while in the second quarter, students actually implement their project.

Fellowships and Impact Lab will have their application cycle in Winter, and Studio applications will be due mid/late October. For more info on when applications are due, you should definitely join the CS+SG mailing list at bit.ly/cssg-interest-2122!

The CS department also has the CURIS program for undergrad research. If you're interested in research, this is a great way to get first-hand experience; some projects may require a more substantial background (e.g., the AI/ML ones), but definitely check out the offerings and reach out to professors of the ones you're interested in.

There are a few ways that you can use JavaScript to complement code in other languages, like Python. The most common situation where JavaScript enters the mix is when you have a website running on a server somewhere and that server code is written in a different language, like Python. (If this is confusing for you, don't worry! This is a more advanced topic for future classes.) If you want your website to be interactive, however, you'll need to write code that runs in the browser — and that's where JavaScript comes in.

Using technologies like Node.js also makes it possible for you to run JavaScript scripts outside of the browser, so you're not limited to using your new JavaScript skills just for websites.

(If you're curious, it's also possible to run JavaScript in Python scripts and vice versa using subprocesses, but don't worry about this. It's something you learn in CS 110/111.)

Unfortunately none of us really have a sense of what 106M is like, as it didn’t exist when any of us took 106B. From looking at the website, my impression is that 106M is more focused on implementing algorithms, whereas 106S focuses more on topics that we are able to tie back to social good. And to be clear: it’s not our intention for students to only be able to take one of 106S or 106M — the two classes just happened to be scheduled at the same time this quarter, and there’s not really anything we can do about it. :(

Since CS 106S is a 1-unit S/NC class, we don’t have formal office hours. That being said, if you want to meet with the teaching team, feel free to send us an email or find us after class!

The most important thing is to have done a solid chunk of the CS core (and ideally some electives as well) and to have done well in them. Additional tips would be to highlight the reasons you wish to pursue a CS coterm, such as opening up career opportunities, as well as articulate the general direction you wish to steer your coterm toward, such as specific tracks and even classes. For non-CS majors, you could explore how having a more technical background through the COterm could help you pursue your primary/additional fields of interest, such as history, with greater depth and insight. That said, the most important thing for CS Coterm is to have a strong track record of performance in CS classes—both core and non-core.

You’re absolutely welcome to create a student group chat! We encourage someone in the class to create a GroupMe. While this would be an unofficial student group chat (that is, the teaching team wouldn’t be in it), we think it’d be a great way for you all to foster community.