Resource talk:How to leverage Harvard's free CS50 online class to teach code on your campus

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Hi, your guide was super interesting! I wish more possibilities like you try to create would exist. Online Courses are not only cheap but also easily accessible. To be fair, education in Europe is not as expensive as in other countries so there, it might not make a huge difference cost-wise. However, an online course allows students to learn when they want and how fast they want. Some learn better at 8am, some best at 11pm. Moreover, some can watch it at a higher speed, and some can re-watch parts again or stop the video to google a question. With online courses, individual personality differences have less impact on the student success. Thank you for this guide and I really hope that more projects like that will be implemented!


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Knowledge is a commodity to be shared and disseminated, for knowledge pays dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few. As a tech geek, I connected to this a lot, Harvard's free CS50, which helps students to develop their coding and tech skills. In turn this would be a big supporting skill to enable us to be placed. In this, one can learn C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript plus CSS and HTML which is one of the most trending skills which helps students a lot and courses from a big university like Harvard will ensure a standard experiential learning. The online course is the best way of learning because we can learn whenever and wherever as per our convenience and interest. I hope that more projects and strategies should be implemented in college for enriching the students.Thanks for implementing such a great strategy which helps many students in building their career.

It was really inspiring to see this student use a free online course to help other students around them. Free online courses are a great and often underutilized resource. While these courses are very useful for personal development and benefit, it takes an entrepreneurial mindset focused on positive change-making to realize that this resource can be utilized to help others. I also found it very helpful that this guide took into account the logistics involved in implementing this course on one's college campus and how there may be challenges, but it is worth it for the purpose of educating one's community.