Re:Hollywood has more impact on Harvard’s CS50 than the Nasdaq
by pge on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @08:18PM
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I was one of the students on the far left of that chart - the early 90s spike. I don't recall any external influence like The Social Network, but the course had a great reputation, and the world was going through a tech shift (students had just gotten email for example). Perhaps who's teaching is a driver as well.
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Re:Hollywood has more impact on Harvard’s CS50 than the Nasdaq
by akharris on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @08:23PM
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Who was teaching back then? Check out the paper I referenced (from the prof teaching now) - good insight onto the changes he's made and how they've impacted the class. Still, though, that huge jump at the end has to come from the outside. Ec10 was the only class larger this year.
Re:Hollywood has more impact on Harvard’s CS50 than the Nasdaq
by tingley on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:10AM
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Margo Seltzer taught CS50 for much of the 90s -- at least '95, '97, and '98 and also, I believe, for a couple years prior to that. (She was on leave in 1996, and Brian Kernighan taught the course.)