Don’t have time to put 20 hours a week into taking CS50?
The TechMedia Club and the Business Analytics Club is bringing you an opportunity to learn the best of CS50 in only 2 hours a week for 7 weeks.
If you anticipate working alongside software developers in tech organizations or prototyping for your own startup, this is the course for you. The course lays out fundamental concepts and principles of development taught by HBS EC student Delaney Manders, who has nearly two decades of software development experience.
By the end of the course, you will be able to talk the talk well enough to pass the average technical interview (or dazzle engineers at a party) and be able to engage with technical co-founders or software teams. You will be able to script your Facebook feed, scrape your classcard, and build a web application. Moreover, you will come away with an understanding of some of the history, practice and culture of modern software development.
No prior exposure to programming is required. For students who have gone through FirehoseWeekend or similar intro classes this is an ideal way to deepen your understanding.
Classes will consist of 50 minutes of technical instruction and cultural background, followed by an optional (but strongly recommended) supervised tutorial period with assigned questions to practice skills.
Session 1 – Tues Feb 4: 3:30-5:30 (Getting started with bits, bytes, variables, boolean logic and loops)
Session 2 – Tues Feb 11: 3:30-5:30 (Functions, arrays, objects & data structures)
Session 3 – Tues Feb 18: 3:30-5:30 (Computational complexity & algorithms)
Session 4 – Tues Feb 25: 3:30-5:30 (Working with strings & text)
Session 5 – Tues Mar 4: 3:30-5:30 (Building a modern web application with JS, HTML5 & CSS)
Session 6 – Tues Mar 11: 3:30-5:30 (Consuming REST APIs with Javascript)
Session 7 – Tues Apr 1: 3:30-5:30 (Cloud computing)
To sign up, fill-out this form and come to the first session in Aldrich 109.
Email Del ([email protected]) or Ming ([email protected]) with any questions.
