CS50's AP® Computer Science Principles

I thought this was a great introduction to computer science.

The introduction to Computer Science course from Harvard University CS50's was amazing.

The problem sets are designed in such a way that one is forced to read and do further research to accomplish them.

The instructor, David Malin, does an outstanding job of making it interesting as well as making it easy to submit problem sets and get them graded quickly (because it's mostly automatic).

Professor David Malan and his army of TAs put an absurd amount of effort into giving Intro to Computer Science actual LIFE.

David Malan explains everything very well and is very interactive, using his students to help explain different concepts.

There is a lot of good stuff here, but is is so painfully disorganized it is a chore to figure out.

Someday they'll figure out how to adjust the course material to the medium, but until then I'd rather not spend my time listening to a huge chunk of the lecture time spent on office hours, drop-add period, TA introductions, locations and times of recitation sections, exam and homework schedules.

the learning curve is steep but doable and there is a lot of help out there!

CS50x has a steep learning curve, especially towards the end when students get to build a real web application using a combination of tools.

Introduce you to some fundamental data structures such as trees and linked lists.

Topics covered: bits, binary, ascii, Scratch, C, compilers, functions, types, scope, linear search, binary search, big O notation, sorting, pointers, data structures, HTTP, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Ajax and APIs.

The platform is reliable, the UX is crisp, and, most importantly, the course content is phenomenal.

The sense of satisfaction I gained from completing each problem set was tremendous and even though the learning curve is steep (to say the least), I am now comfortable in my understanding of the basics of computer science and in coding in C. The web design module was probably the most fun even though for me personally it was the most demanding.

First of all, I need to say that I had previous knowledge in programming languages, and even though I hadn't written in pure C for almost 2 years, it might have been easier for me.

This course felt like a full college course.

It is the first MOOC for which I felt like I would really have earned 3 or 4 credit hours because- similar to taking it in-person.

More recently I signed up for the EdX version out of interest to see what they had changed.

As an aspiring mathematician and scientist with an interest in tech, I have always wanted to learn computer science and programming in my free time, but to this day I have signed up for and given up on countless online courses due to a lack of motivation.

He uses clever real life examples to make complicated notions easier, in fact, you don't need any programming experience and it's still useful in non- programming jobs.

And indeed making errors is an important part of the process, so by showing mistakes we can encounter that makes the lectures interactive and close to real life programming.

# The lectures The lecture are one of the most important parts of the course, David J. Malan is a great lecturer.

# Problem Sets Without a doubt, psets were the other important part of the course.