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Associate Professor of Computer Science Matt D. Welsh addressed the issue of changing the grading scheme of CS50 in a blog post published yesterday. Though he noted that the post “represents [his] own thoughts on the matter, not the CS faculty as a whole,” Welsh wrote that he “question[s] the need to change the grading option for CS50, which potentially creates more problems than it solves...
...also praised the efforts of CS50 Lecturer David J. Malan ’99, who has worked to make the introductory coding class more accessible to those without a CS background. Under Malan’s tenure, CS50 has attracted record levels of female enrollment, though this has not yet translated to higher numbers of female concentrators...
...CS Professor Radhika Nagpal said that while she has grown “more and more puzzled” over the gender disparity, she believes that Harvard can look to some of its peer institutions to improve female participation in CS...
...particular, she highlighted MIT—where 31 percent of CS concentrators are now female—as a school where a concerted effort to improve gender ratios in CS had been extremely successful...
Undergraduate Council Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11 is no stranger to working with technology. The computer science major and self-termed “CS nerd” has been making Web sites since he was 10 years...