- Offered by: Harvard
- Prerequisites: None
- Programming Languages: C, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Difficulty: 🌟🌟
- Class Hour: 20 hours
This course has been voted the most popular public course by Harvard students for many years. Professor Malan is very passionate in class. I still remember the scene where he tears up the Yellow pages to explain the dichotomy method. Since this is a university-wide public course, the contents are pretty friendly to beginners and even if you already have some programming experience, all the programming assignments are quite exciting and worth a try.
All the resources and assignments used by @mancuoj in this course are maintained in mancuoj/CS50x - GitHub.
This is CS50, Harvard University’s introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming, for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience. (Two thirds of CS50 students have never taken CS before.) This course teaches you how to solve problems, both with and without code, with an emphasis on correctness, design, and style. Topics include computational thinking, abstraction, algorithms, data structures, and computer science more generally. Problem sets inspired by the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. More than teach you how to program in one language, this course teaches you how to program fundamentally and how to teach yourself new languages ultimately. The course starts with a traditional but omnipresent language called C that underlies today’s newer languages, via which you’ll learn not only about functions, variables, conditionals, loops, and more, but also about how computers themselves work underneath the hood, memory and all. The course then transitions to Python, a higher-level language that you’ll understand all the more because of C. Toward term’s end, the course introduces SQL, via which you can store data in databases, along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, via which you can create web and mobile apps alike. Course culminates in a final project.
Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to “take” this course for free via this OpenCourseWare by working your way through the course’s eleven weeks of material.
To submit the course’s problem sets and final project for feedback, be sure to create an edX account, if you haven’t already. Ask questions along the way via any of the course’s communities!
- If interested in a verified certificate from edX, enroll at cs50.edx.org instead.
- If interested in a professional certificate from edX
- in web development, enroll at cs50.edx.org/programs/web instead.
- in artificial intelligence, enroll at cs50.edx.org/programs/ai instead.
- in Python programming, enroll at cs50.edx.org/programs/python instead.
- If interested in transfer credit and accreditation from Harvard Extension School, register at web.dce.harvard.edu/extension/csci/e/50 instead.
- If interested in transfer credit and accreditation from Harvard Summer School, register at web.dce.harvard.edu/summer/csci/s/50 instead.