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== Topic ==
Harvard’s Introduction to Computer Science course, CS50, is a popular class not only at Harvard but also around the world. Although students around the world are now able to complete CS50 online, it has been required for all first-year students at Harvard since its introduction. It is available free to the public via <u>edX.org</u>, a hub for online classes hosted by over 90 of the world's top Universities. It is a means for anyone who has an interest interested to learn to code and is a valuable resource to Fellows in particular. Topics covered in this class include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development. A wide variety of languages are covered as well including C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript plus CSS and HTML.
One Fellow, Trevor Nicks, leveraged the class to not only teach himself a valuable skill, but also to establish it as an accredited course at his university, William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Initiating the use of online courses such as CS50 on a campus can help to teach students skills and knowledge that they may not have been able to learn in their major or at their school at all.
