College Summer School Classes

Take summer school classes at these community colleges. For computer programming, I recommended them in this order of preference. All the classes this summer will be online, so it doesn't matter whether you take a class at a school far away or a school nearby. You will need to have a computer and internet that you can rely on. Summer school courses are fast-paced. You'll complete a whole semester (or quarter) of work  in only six to eight weeks.

Schools on the quarter system have classes that start later and last 10 to 12 weeks. Schools on the semester system start earlier and have classes that last 16 weeks.

Rank	School	Comments	Start Date
1	Foothill	Best, Quarters	June 29
2	Mission	Semesters	June 8
3	West Valley	Semesters	June 8
4	Ohlone	Semesters	June 15
5	De Anza	Quarters	June 29
6	San Jose City	Semesters	June 15
7	Evergreen	Worst	No CS classes

All these schools (except Evergreen) offer the same staple of classes:

• C++
• Java
• Python (I don't recommend taking Python during the summer.)
• Evergreen does not offer any CS classes during the summer and not much the rest of the year, either.

In addition, there are a few oddball classes you can take during the summer:

• West Valley - Advanced Python
• De Anza - Introduction to Linux
• De Anza - Assembly Language (but it's full already)
• Foothill - Intermediate C++, Java, and Python
• Foothill - Introduction to Linux
• Ohlone - Assembly Language
• Ohlone - Statistical Software
• Ohlone - Introduction to Linux
• Ohlone - Intermediate Java