Word: cs50
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Every year, students in Computer Science 50: "Introduction to Computer Science" (CS50) debate whether the course's instructors really use a special program to weed out cheaters and plagiarists...
...have to admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that...
...instance, Bossert says that the computer programming course he will be teaching this semester, QR 20, is basically "a watered down CS50...