David J. Malan, Instructor
Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science. Algorithms: their design, specification, and analysis. Software development: problem decomposition, abstraction, data structures, implementation, debugging, testing. Architecture of computers: low-level data representation and instruction processing. Computer systems: programming languages, compilers, operating systems. Computers in the real world: networks, security and cryptography, artificial intelligence, social issues. Assignments include extensive programming in the C language and PHP. These lectures were filmed in Sever Hall. Notes were taken by Anjuli Kannan '09. If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, you may want to join the Google Group at right. Supersections are weekly review sessions led by the teaching fellows that supplement sections (otherwise known as "recitations" or "precepts" at other universities). These supersections were filmed in Science Center. Videos of Fall 2007's sections are not available, but videos of Fall 2009's sections are. In order to accommodate students with different backgrounds, some problem sets are released in two editions: a standard edition intended for most students and a "Hacker Edition" intended for some students. Both editions essentially cover the same material. But the Hacker Edition typically presents that material from a more technical angle and poses more sophisticated questions. If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, you may want to join the Google Group at right. Below are quizzes; other answers may be possible. Reviews were led by Rose Cao '11, Matthew Chartier '12, Jesse Cohen '10, Derek Lietz '09, and Mike Teodorescu '11. If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, you may want to join the Google Group at right. Seminars cover material beyond the scope of the course. Fall 2008's seminars and Fall 2009's seminars are also available. |
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This is CS50 OpenCourseware. Computer Science 50 (otherwise known as CS50) is Harvard College's introductory course for majors and non-majors alike, a one-semester amalgam of courses generally known as CS1 and CS2 taught mostly in C. Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to "take" this course via cs50.tv by following along via the Internet. (The course's own website is at www.cs50.net.) Available at left are videos of lectures, sections (aka "recitations" or "precepts"), and seminars along with PDFs of all handouts. Also available at left are the course's problem sets and quizzes. If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, do join the course's Google Group. If you're a teacher, you are welcome to adopt or adapt these materials for your own course, per the license. If you'd like to take this course for real (on Harvard's campus or via the Internet) in order to receive feedback on work, grades, and a transcript, the course will next be offered through Harvard Extension School (as "Computer Science E-52") in Fall 2013. You can register online starting in August 2013. Special thanks to Chris Thayer and Media & Technology Services for the course's videos and to Thomas Carriero '08 and Katie Fifer '08, Fall 2007's heads. djm Copyright © 2007 – 2013, David J. Malan This course's content is licensed by David J. Malan under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you are not only welcome to watch, listen to, download, and/or read this content,
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