Announcements
- Lecture 1, on Computational Thinking, is now available.
- Complete Quiz 1 by 2023-09-14T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend one section for this lecture during the week of September 11.
- Complete Assignment 1 by 2023-09-24T23:59:00-04:00.
- Be sure you’ve familiarized yourself with the course’s syllabus, particularly its provisions concerning academic honesty, lateness, and extensions.
Description
This course is a variant of Harvard College’s introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for business professionals. Whereas CS50 itself takes a bottom-up approach, emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto. Ultimately, this course empowers students to make technological decisions even if not technologists themselves. Topics include cloud computing, networking, privacy, scalability, security, and more, with an emphasis on web and mobile technologies. Students emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide their decision making. This course is designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision makers more generally.
Table of Contents
Computational Thinking
- Watch Lecture 1.
- Complete Quiz 1 no later than 2023-09-14T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
- Optionally attend office hours.
- Submit Assignment 1 by 2023-09-24T23:59:00-04:00.