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Harvard University

CS50's Computer Science for Business Professionals

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Overview

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science 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.

Taught by

David J. Malan

Reviews

4.7 rating, based on 16 Class Central reviews

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  • it was good to learn in this manner , im also happy to get these type of course in free
    it was fun to learn wit these
  • Anonymous
    This is false advertising....the course is free, the certificate is almost $200....not a ton of money, but not in the budget for a single mom, so be warned.
  • This course is excellent for business professionals who want a high-level overview of computer science. There are six lecture videos and six assignments, one for each section. The assignments are technical, but don't involve much math and will not be overly complicated for the average professional.

    Wikipedia is your friend when reviewing the content to answer questions.

    If you've been programming for a year or more then skip this class and take Harvard's standard CS50 or MITs CS with Python.
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    Vipul
    No matter the professional level, we can all benefit from learning how to succeed in our careers. Whether a well-seasoned professional, a management trainee, or a service level employee, this course will help you enrich your career by honing your professional behavior and networking.

    I will work hard to make sure I obtained expected requirements in my studying with focus and commitment to standard of the institution.

    thank you to all for this great Course Thank You very much all
  • Seyi Ezekiel Alimi
    week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
    This course is excellent for business professionals who want a high-level overview of computer science. There are six lecture videos and six assignments, one for each section. The assignments are technical, but don't involve much math and will not be overly complicated for the average professional.
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    Sri Jagathi Devireddy
    This course is very useful for you if you want to know how to manage the database of your very own business. Even though I am just a freshman in high school, it was very useful subject vise or even for personal uses.

    As a high schooler, it took time for me to understand what they were explaining, but in the end, I found it very easy to understand with the proper usage of all the resources.
  • Moulaye Zein
    it was good to learn in this manner , im also happy to get these type of course in free
    it was fun to learn wit these
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    Gayatri Laila Dwi Sari
    sangat memuaskan, dan menambah wawasan, banyak ilmu dan tantangan yang baru. dan saya harus banyak lebih belajar lagi
  • Princely Okere
    Great course, great outline, great delivery, Excellent content, the expectation was exceeded, i went in without knowing i would be baffled
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    Ramadan Alhamid
    Mein Name ist Ramadan Alhamid, ich komme aus Syrien. Im Moment wohne ich in Deutschland in der Stadt Wuppertal.

    Liebe Grüße
  • Joaquim Viana Francisco
    good morning! it is the best chisel site, it gives the opportunity for several young people to seek training to improve their work activity, so keep doing a good job
  • Anonymous
    Hi everybody

    I enjoy this course it was very helpful.

    but I think This course is not for beginners.

    thank you for everything.
  • Shravan Vernekar
    it was good to learn in this manner , im also happy to get these type of course in free
    it was fun to learn wit these
  • I will work hard to make sure I obtained expected requirements in my studying with focus and commitment to standard of the institution.
  • Anonymous
    Ci congratuliamo con Marinangeli Gianpaolo ha superato il corso relativo "Science for Business professionals"
  • Benmehenni Youcef
    No matter the professional level, we can all benefit from learning how to succeed in our careers. Whether a well-seasoned professional, a management trainee, or a service level employee, this course will help you enrich your career by honing your professional behavior and networking.

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