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 cs50.harvard.edu.) Available at right are videos of lectures, walkthroughs, and seminars along with PDFs of all handouts. Also available at right are the course's problem sets.
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-50") in Fall 2013; you can register online starting in July 2013. You can also take this course through edX.
Special thanks to Doug Lloyd '09, Rob Bowden '13, Maria Zlatkova '18, and Brian Yu '19, Fall 2017's heads.
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Copyright © 2017 – 2019, David J. Malan of Harvard University
This course's content is licensed by David J. Malan of Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you are not only welcome to "take" this course,
you are free:
So that folks (like you!) have a place to turn with questions, we've created a Google Group called cs50-discuss, which is like a message board and mailing list rolled into one.
Once you've joined, you'll be able to email the group at cs50-discuss@googlegroups.com and browse past discussions at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cs50-discuss.
These lectures were produced in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall by Dan Coffey, Lauren Scully, Ian Sexton, and Ramon Galvan. Notes were taken by Cheng Gong.
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. Integrated into standard editions, though, are "walkthroughs," videos via which the course's staff offer direction on where to begin and how to approach a challenge.
Most of these problem sets require the CS50 IDE.
Walkthroughs supplement lectures and psets. Led by David J. Malan '99 and Zamyla Chan '14, these walkthroughs were filmed in Maxwell Dworkin.
Shorts supplement lectures. Led by CS50's staff, these shorts were filmed in Maxwell Dworkin.
Seminars cover material beyond the scope of the course.