Announcements
Be sure to review Doug’s note on Ed about how grading works in this course when you have a moment. Our approach tends to be more holistic than other courses, so understanding how it works might save you a bit of stress later this term!
- The course’s next lecture, Programming Languages, is now available.
- Complete Quiz 2 no later than 2024-07-03T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend a section for this lecture during the week of July 1.
- Complete Assignment 2 no later than 2024-07-07T23:59:00-04:00.
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 after 2024-06-24T00:00:00-04:00.
- Complete Quiz 1 no later than 2024-06-26T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
- Optionally attend office hours.
- Submit Assignment 1 by 2024-06-30T23:59:00-04:00.
Programming Languages
- Watch Lecture 2 after 2024-07-01T00:00:00-04:00.
- Complete Quiz 2 no later than 2024-07-03T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
- Optionally attend office hours.
- Submit Assignment 2 by 2024-07-07T23:59:00-04:00.