The New Yorker

How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire

Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in ...
The Harvard Crimson

Yale Ends CS50 Partnership With Harvard

After ten years, Yale University has ended its partnership with Harvard to provide a version of Computer Science 50. The jointly taught computer science class — which piloted at Harvard in 1989 before ...
The Harvard Crimson

CS50 Moves Away from Traditional Lectures, Toward Virtual Reality

This fall, students enrolled in CS50, Harvard’s behemoth introductory Computer Science course, will only be asked to attend two lectures in person. The new policy, one of a host of changes announced ...
Inside Higher Ed

Conflicted About 'New Yorker' Article on Harvard’s CS50

Have you had the chance to step away from Zoom long enough to read Eren Orbey’s July 21 New Yorker article, "How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire"? What did ...
Business Insider

We Took Harvard's Incredibly Popular Computer Science Course And Can See Why Students Love It

Everyone is talking about CS50 — the Harvard introductory computer science course that saw more than 800 students enroll, making it the most popular course at Harvard this semester. Its rise has been ...
Business Insider

Yale Could Start Offering A Version Of Harvard's Hugely Popular Computer Science Class

Yale may want to get its hands on the most popular undergraduate course at Harvard — Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I, better known as CS50. The Harvard Crimson reports that ...