Like computer science, only cooler
There’s the website to help you figure out why you don’t feel so good. Then there’s the site that offers a new card game —with electronic cards, of course. There’s one that sells a grandmother’s handmade greeting cards. And there are so many more. Computer programming innovation — in both quality and quantity — was on display Friday (Dec. 10) at the Northwest Science Building in the CS 50 fair, an annual celebration of a semester’s worth of programming toil by hundreds of Harvard students, most of whom had taken their first foray into computer programming. CS 50, Introduction to Computer Science I, is a fast-growing lecture course taught by Lecturer on Computer Science David Malan. The class, taught long enough at Harvard for Malan himself to have taken it as an undergraduate in 1996, has drawn larger crowds in recent years, with enrollment rising to 500 this year from 300 last...