Business Insider

The Most Popular Class At Harvard Is Sponsored By Tech Giants Like Google

The Harvard Crimson has a great in-depth dive into the culture surrounding CS50, the introductory computer science course that is currently the most popular class at Harvard with more than 800 ...
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 ...
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Harvard professor says he gets thank-you notes from prisoners, some of which are secretly using smartphones to take his free computer-science class

An inmate in Georgia told The Marshall Project he uses a contraband phone to teach other prisoners. He said he runs a group message teaching computer science using Harvard's CS50 online course. The ...
The Boston Globe

Computer science course fills seats, needs at Harvard

Trevor Brandt-Sarif had no interest in computer science when he arrived at Harvard in 2011. Philosophy was his thing. Writing code? That was for those kids at MIT. But while taking the requisite ...