Sam Clark Leads Yale Students on Tour to CS50 at Harvard

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But for you, if you'd like to invite your friends to this event, come overhead. You'll notice a a distinct Come on in. Come on in. File on in. You notice a a distinct departure from the Gothic architecture that we saw on the rest of the tour of Yale's campus. Uh now, here we are at Sanders Theater. Uh Sanders Theater is really a a cultural and and academic hub here at Harvard. Um, uh, commencement was was held here until 1922. It's modeled after the Sheldonian Theater in, uh, Oxford, England, as a matter of fact. Um, and, uh, it serves serves as a location for many cultural events and big academic events here. Uh, many ac capella groups perform in Sanders. Uh, the Crocodillos perform here frequently. They're sort of like the the whiff and poofs 2.0 almost. um as well as the the largest class actually at Harvard CS50 is is taught here. Um who who on the tour is interested in in computer science? Anyone interested? Oh, terrific. Terrific. Well, uh so if you happen to metriculate at Yale, you'll you'll really really want to be taking CS50. Uh look at that. It's really good. Um, you won't actually be able to take it physically within Sanders Theater. However, CS50 will be livereamed over to you in New Haven as well as uh you'll have an entire support staff, support network of of staff there to take CS50 to learn all about uh computer science. Um, so this is uh Sanders Theater. It's it's not Gothic, but it's great. Um, does uh anyone have any questions before we move on to the next stop? Um, yeah. Yeah. Is that Is that David Men? Oh my god, it is. Let's take a selfie. Selfie. Selfie. Take a selfie. Right here. Right here. Here. Someone hold it up. Someone hold it up. I'll I'll you David. Hello, Sam. Doing well. Got to flip it around. Flip it around. And uh duck duck face. Duck face. David. Yeah, he likes that. There it is. Very good. Terrific. Terrific. Uh well, we'll move on to the next stop. Our next stop is the uh Harvard Stadium uh where we've had great luck in the last uh 13 years. Let's move on. [Music] So, the rumors are indeed true. For the first time in history, students at Harvard and Yale alike will be able to take a course called CS50 this coming fall in 2015. We will put aside the rivalry for nearly 100 years and ultimately [Applause] in fall 2015 Yale stu actual Yale students will be able to take CS50 for the first time. And the lectures will indeed be streamed to from here your successors in this audience to New Haven where students will be able to engage in person or as some of you have so optimized online live or on demand after. But we will be standing up a local support structure complete with teaching fellows, course assistants who will be leading sections and office hours. CS50 puzzle day will be held in Cambridge and we will invite our Yale friends to Cambridge for CS50 puzzle day as well as the CS50 hackathon. And then at semester's end, there will be an epic display in both Cambridge and in New Haven of CS50 students from Harvard and Yale alike uh on display in those respective towns. And indeed, if you have any friends who go to Yale, we do need some TFS and CAS. So, do send them to this URL here. But we will in the meantime be sending one of CS50's own best teaching fellows, Jason Hershorn, who's about to graduate, having just finished his thesis on the intersection of computer science and education. Jason will be working full-time at Yale and will be on the ground there helping us to stand this up and bring these two universities together via CS50. [Music] Now, along with CS50's production team, I had an opportunity to hop in the car with this guy and take a look at what awaits us in New Haven. [Music] Moving right along in search of good times and good news with good friends you can't lose. This could become a habit. Opportunity knocks once. Let's reach out and grab it. Together we'll nab it. Real hitchhike bus or yellow cabbage. Cabbage. Moving right along and fancy free. Getting there is half the fun. Compare it with me. Moving right along. Learn to share alone. We don't need a map to keep the show on the road. Hey Buzzy, I want you to turn left if you come to a fork in the road. Yes, sir. Turn left at the fork in the road. Permit. I don't believe that. Moving right along. We found a life on the highway and your way is my way. So trust my navigation. Movie stars with flashy cars and life with the top down. We're storming the big hill. Yeah, storm is right. Should it be snowing? No, I don't think so. Moving right along. loose and fancy breeze. You ready for that big time? Is it pretty for me? Moving right along. Moving right along. Moving right along. Moving right along. [Music] Maybe you better pull over. Yes, sir. Oh.