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This Was CS50: Crying Poor, Yale To Stop Offering Harvard's Famed CS50 Course


Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course "CS50" since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a decade of partnership w...

Since Yale started offering the course in 2015, CS50 has consistently seen enrollment numbers in the hundreds and was often the department's largest class.... According to [Yale instructor Ozan] Erat, the original [anonymous] donation that made CS50 possible ended in June 2024, and the cost of employing so many undergraduate learning assistants for the course had become unsustainable. theodp reminds us that CS50 and its progeny "will continue to live on in all their glory in-person and online at Harvard and edX."

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