Per CS50’s syllabus, “what ultimately matters in this course is not so much where you end up relative to your classmates but where you, in Week 11, end up relative to yourself in Week 0.” Accordingly, provided you put in the time and effort, odds are you’ll fare quite well! In Fall 2018, 41% of students received a final grade of SAT, 30% of students received a final grade of A, 18% of students received a final grade of A-, 6% of students received a final grade in the B range, and 2% of students received a final grade in the C range, per the below. Not only does SAT/UNS allow you to explore an unfamiliar field (whether CS or some other) without fear of “failure,” odds are, more pragmatically, it will reduce undue stress during your semester’s busier times. Unless your (potential) concentration requires that you take CS50 for a letter grade, you should take CS50 SAT/UNS, which is the default. Should I take CS50 SAT/UNS or for a letter grade? If you are a grad student at another school, email and FAS’s Registrar will make the change for you. Even though it’s “for language courses only,” you may indeed use it for CS50. If you are a GSAS student, submit this form. ( There is no fee from the Registrar for changing grading basis.) If you email (a scan or photo of) the form to one of the course’s heads can sign it digitally and email it back to you for your advisor’s and resident dean’s signatures. Indicate a change from SUS to LG, and drop off the form at the Registrar’s office in Suite 450 of the Smith Center (at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue) no later than 5pm on the term’s fifth Monday. In my.harvard, select Student Home, then select Documents, and then, under Document Center, download Fall 2019- P/F Petition as a PDF. Grades How can I change from SAT/UNS to letter grade? College Students You may take CS50 (SAT/UNS or for a letter grade) to fulfill the Science and Engineering and Applied Science distribution requirement or the Quantitative Reasoning with Data requirement, but not both. Gen Ed Does CS50 satisfy a Gen Ed requirement? While students should be mindful of CS50’s workload and should perhaps avoid taking 4 pset-based classes, students shouldn’t shy away (from CS50 or any other introductory course) simply because they’re first years. Yes, if they would like! In Fall 2017, first years composed a majority of CS50’s student body. Even though first years may not ordinarily enroll in both a Freshman Seminar and another non-letter-graded course in any one term, they may take both CS50 and a Freshman Seminar SAT/UNS. See this answer on Quora! First Years Can first years take both CS50 and a Freshman Seminar SAT/UNS? The goal, ultimately, is for students to feel not that they “learned how to program in X” but that they “learned how to program.” Why does CS50 use C? Via one of the course’s end-of-term tracks can you also learn a bit of HTML and CSS (which are languages but not programming languages). Via the course’s end-of-term “tracks” will you learn a bit about Java, JavaScript, Lua, and/or Swift (each of which can be described as an “object-oriented” language). Rather than teach just one language, CS50 introduces students to a range of “procedural” programming languages, each of which builds conceptually atop another, among them Scratch, C, Python, and SQL.
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