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‘CS50 Changed My Life’: 25 Years After Shuttleboy, David J. Malan ’99 Reflects on Path to Teaching
Every fall, hundreds of students — sometimes as many as 800 — pack into Sanders Theatre for a course that promises to be “an experience,” unlike any other the College has to offer.
“This.
Is. CS50,” David J. Malan ’99 announced as he began the first lecture of Harvard’s flagship computer science course CS50: An Introduction to Computer Science.
Malan, who took over the introductory computer science course in 2007, has opened each semester since with his signature line.
It has become synonymous with his overhaul of the once daunting course — one that is now offered to over 5.8 million students on HarvardX, a free online learning platform.
While today’s students associate Malan — Harvard’s celebrity-like computer science professor — with the swag and fandom surrounding his trademark course CS50, he was first one of 457 students who enrolled in CS50 in the fall of 1996.
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