Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 12, 2014 @07:59AM from the i-bet-you-liked-programming-before-it-was-cool dept.

alphadogg writes: Harvard College's CS50, the school's Introduction to Computer Science course for undergrads, has attracted about 1 in 8 students this fall — a new record for the school and yet another sign of just how hot this field is becoming for the job-hungry. Overall, 818 undergrads (or 12% of the student body) signed up for the challenging course this semester (PDF), and nearly 900 students are registered when factoring in graduate and cross-registered students. Topics on the syllabus include Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript. David Malan, a Harvard CompSci grad, teaches the course.

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Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript. by TechyImmigrant · 2014-09-12 08:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

>Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript.
That's computer science?
What about algorithm complexity analysis, type theory, normal forms and well, computer science.

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