Free Harvard CS50 Intro to Computer Science course

[Rodney]

Here's your chance to master the art of programming and computer science.

The course is starting today (officially) but has been ran continuously for the past few years.

The course is self paced.

Link:  https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/harvard-university-cs50-s-introduction-to-computer-science

 

Take the plunge. 

You know you want to.

You know you need to.

 

 

[Rodney]

In Week 0 the Harvard CS50 course demos programming using the learning tool called 'Scratch'.

The first intro course I took in programming used 'Alice'.

I liked Alice because it could load OBJ models and Animation:Master could output OBJ models!

Scratch is more popular and used more often and its likely if you are younger than 30 you've been exposed to it if you had any computer related classes in school.

 

In Week 1 the course move on to using  the C language.

This being quite useful as C++ derives much of its standard usage from C.

And C++ is what drives programs like Animation:Master.

[threedslider]

Good luck everyone who go into to Computer Science course

I know something in C and C++, all are great programming language and very powerful too  

Thank you @Rodney !

[robcat2075]

I got "Mario" and  "Scrabble" working

 

 

and "Change"

[Rodney]

I seriously have issues... 

JUST DO THE ASSIGNMENT.

Is that so hard?

 

Me:  I think I'll change the assignment to make a pyramid instead.

 

 

Gah!

J U S T... D O... T H E... A S S I G N M E N T !

 

 

[Rodney]

Guest speaker for the CS50 course in 2005... some guy named Mark:

 

 

As is the case these days... not a lot of people in attendance in the class. 

[Rodney]

Attempt at Scrabble:

Note for the curious:  A key element of the program is changing inputs to uppercase.

[Rodney]

Change:

Along with processing the different values of coins we add some error checking in this one.