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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 they are 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

  1. Watch Lecture 1 after 2025-09-02T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 1 no later than 2025-09-11T23:59:00-04:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 1 by 2025-09-21T23:59:00-04:00.

Programming Languages

  1. Watch Lecture 2 after 2025-09-22T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 2 no later than 2025-09-25T23:59:00-04:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 2 by 2025-10-05T23:59:00-04:00.

Internet Technologies

  1. Watch Lecture 3 after 2025-10-06T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 3 no later than 2025-10-09T23:59:00-04:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 3 by 2025-10-19T23:59:00-04:00.

Web Development

  1. Watch Lecture 4 after 2025-10-20T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 4 no later than 2025-10-30T23:59:00-04:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 4 by 2025-11-09T23:59:00-05:00.

Technology Stacks

  1. Watch Lecture 5 after 2025-11-10T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 5 no later than 2025-11-13T23:59:00-05:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 5 by 2025-11-23T23:59:00-05:00.

Cloud Computing

  1. Watch Lecture 6 after 2025-11-24T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. Complete Quiz 6 no later than 2025-11-27T23:59:00-05:00.
  3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
  4. Optionally attend office hours.
  5. Submit Assignment 6 by 2025-12-07T23:59:00-05:00.

Exam

  1. Review information about the exam.
  2. Optionally attend the review session.
  3. Submit exam by 2025-12-17T23:59:00-05:00.