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CS50’s Computer Science for Business

Course Length

6 weeks

2-6 hours a week

Featuring faculty from:

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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$ 299

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This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals, designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision-makers more generally. Whereas CS50 itself takes a bottom-up approach, emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto. Through lectures on computational thinking, programming languages, internet technologies, web development, technology stacks, and cloud computing, this course empowers you to make technological decisions even if not a technologist yourself. You’ll emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide your decision-making. The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world.

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Learning Outcome
Understand computational thinking and programming languages.
Learning Outcome
Learn about internet technologies and web development.
Learning Outcome
Explore technology stacks and cloud computing.

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Faculty

Your Instructor

David J. Malan

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as well as a Member of the Faculty of Education in the Graduate School of Education. He teaches Computer Science 50, otherwise known as CS50, which is among Harvard University's largest courses, one of Yale University's largest courses, and edX's largest MOOC. He also teaches at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Extension School, and Harvard Summer School.

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