Yale claiming lack of funding when it’s got a $40 billion endowment is pretty laughable.
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This reminds me of when Bobby Hill thinks Hank's a millionaire because he doesn't understand how the finances work.
Sad to see. I took the free online version of the course a few years ago. It was really well organized. Although it faltered near the last classes (excessive focus on web site application) it was undoubtedly the best introductory course available for free on the web and perhaps even better than most paid ones. I do wish we could find out who was the secret donor, not to berate them, just to say thanks.
The online version will remark free and available. The in-person, for credit course is being discontinued. Unless you are an incoming Harvard student, this won’t affect you.
I took one of the free CS50 classes (among others) on EdX years and years ago, and honestly it helped get me into the business and into the job I have now.
It’s fun to joke I took a MIT class for free. But it honestly helped me learn some logic and enough stuff to get me going.
I learned the basics of CS from this course online 7 years ago and it lead to a great career as a software dev. Hat's off to the whole CS50 team for creating such an incredible resource and making it available for free!
This gives some hope. One thing I liked was the class updated each year. In the 2015 class, David Malan tore a phone book in half as a demonstration of search algorithms, but moved on after phone books became a distant memory.
While Yale shifts to more specialized computer science introductory courses, David Malan, who teaches CS50 at Harvard, will focus on a new partnership with the University of Oxford. However, Malan looks back on his partnership with Yale as a “perfect proof of concept” that higher education can be more collaborative.