Ep. 71: Harvard CS50's David Malan and Colton Ogden on Computer Science

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:06:54 +0000

<p>CS50 is the most popular course at Harvard, and hundreds of thousands of people have taken the free online version of the course as well.</p> <p>We recently posted the lectures for the course on freeCodeCamp's YouTube channel - including the CS50 game development course - all free and commercial-free.</p> <p>During this interview, David Malan and Colton Ogden talk about how they got into technology. They share tips for how to effectively learn computer science, and some advice for teachers and community leaders as well.</p> <p>Colton shares one of his favorite game development hacks, and David tell us the story behind the CS50 catchphrase: "this is CS50"</p> <p>Follow CS50 on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/cs50">https://twitter.com/cs50</a></p> <p>Subscribe to the CS50 podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cs50-podcast/id1459708246</p> <p>Test out CS50's Integrated Development Environment: https://ide.cs50.io/</p> <p>And CS50's Sandbox: https://sandbox.cs50.io/</p> <p>The article Colton mentions about Resident Evil 2 on N64 (PDF): https://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/GD_Mag_Archives/GDM_September_2000.pdf</p> <p>The Steve Ballmer CS50 guest lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhlKF6MECs</p> <p>And Steve Ballmer's sales pitch of CS50 itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El2mr5aS8y0</p> <p>Fun fact: Brian Kernighan, whom David mentions as the CS50 teacher who preceded him, is also the co-creator of the C programming language. He's even has his own card in freeCodeCamp Programmer Playing Cards: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introducing-programmer-playing-cards-d3eeeffe9a11/</p>