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Ask Computer Science Questions And Get Answers! This subreddit is intended for questions about topics that might be taught by a computer science department at a university.

157k subscribers131 posts / mo in Sep 2026116 authors / mosince 2011

r/AskComputerScience has 157k members (+9.2% over the last 12 months). It gets about 131 posts a month from 116 people. Top topics: Computer Science Major, Learning Resources and Data Structures & Algorithms.

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Size and growth

How r/AskComputerScience has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+9.2%in 12 months · +1.8% in 3 months · +0.3% in 1 month
Oct 2026157k
Growing157k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−38%vs Sep 2025 · −23% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026131
QuieterPeaked at 403 in Oct 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/AskComputerScience

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Computer Science Major4.2%
  2. Learning Resources2.2%
  3. Data Structures & Algorithms2.2%
  4. Programming Languages1.4%
  5. CS Career & Jobs1.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  2. Medium
  3. Doi
  4. nand2tetris
  5. Zenodo

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research