Announcements

• The exam has been posted. Good luck! It is due 2023-08-04T23:59:00-04:00, and we cannot accept late work for any reason; do not wait until the last moment to submit!
• 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

1. Watch Lecture 1 on or after Tue 6/20.
2. Complete Quiz 1 no later than 2023-06-21T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 1 by 2023-06-25T23:59:00-04:00.

Programming Languages

1. Watch Lecture 2 on or after Mon 6/26.
2. Complete Quiz 2 no later than 2023-06-28T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 2 by 2023-07-02T23:59:00-04:00.

Internet Technologies

1. Watch Lecture 3 on or after Mon 7/3.
2. Complete Quiz 3 no later than 2023-07-05T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 3 by 2023-07-09T23:59:00-04:00.

Web Development

1. Watch Lecture 4 on or after Mon 7/10.
2. Complete Quiz 4 no later than 2023-07-12T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 4 by 2023-07-16T23:59:00-04:00.

Technology Stacks

1. Watch Lecture 5 on or after Mon 7/17.
2. Complete Quiz 5 no later than 2023-07-19T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 5 by 2023-07-23T23:59:00-04:00.

Cloud Computing

1. Watch Lecture 6 on or after Mon 7/24.
2. Complete Quiz 6 no later than 2023-07-26T23:59:00-04:00.
3. Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per the Zoom expectations).
4. Optionally attend office hours.
5. Submit Assignment 6 by 2023-07-30T23:59:00-04:00.

Exam

1. Review information about the exam.
2. Optionally attend the review session.
3. Submit exam by 2023-08-04T23:59:00-04:00.