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David J. Malan

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I teach @CS50. Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University, [email protected]. Verify at https://t.co/NGJZ2KGgTc.

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Joined February 2010
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David J. Malan
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"A look at how @CS50 has incorporated artificial intelligence (AI), including its new-and-improved rubber duck debugger, and how it has impacted the course already." 🦆 With Rongxin Liu et al. With thanks to @OpenAI, @Microsoft, and @GitHub. https://t.co/404RoxneIo
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A look at how CS50 has incorporated artificial intelligence (AI), including its new-and-improved rubber duck debugger, and how it has impacted the course already. 🦆 David J. Malan is Gordon McKay...
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David J. Malan
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RT @cs50: Live from @Harvard at 1:30pm EDT, this is Week 1 of @CS50 on C. Open to anyone online. This lecture will become part of CS50x 202…
cs50.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CS50 Fall 2025 - Lecture 1 - C (live, unedited). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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CS50
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Live from @Harvard University on Wednesday, September 3, at 1:30 PM EDT, this is @CS50's first lecture of Fall 2025, aka Week 0, on: Computer Science. Computational Thinking. Problem Solving: Inputs, Outputs. Representation: Unary, Binary, Decimal, ASCII, Unicode, RGB.
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@cs50
CS50
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Hello, world! @CS50's lectures in Sanders Theatre at @Harvard are open to the public, September 2025 – November 2025. Whether you are (or were!) a student or teacher of any of CS50's courses, or just CS50-curious, you are welcome to attend CS50's lectures in person in Cambridge,
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CS50
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This was the @CS50 Hackathon at @Meta in London, with @OxfordConted and @tomrocksmaths. 🦆 With workshops on AI, Llama, Wearables, and Number Games.
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David J. Malan
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"As a graduating senior, if you asked me about one of my most memorable moments at @Harvard, I would still immediately think of my very first lecture here. It happened to be @CS50 – Introduction to Computer Science...", by Inno '25. https://t.co/SivfQe9J81
college.harvard.edu
From first CS50 lecture in Sanders Theater to helping teach it – how one electrifying class reshaped my Harvard journey.
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@cs50
CS50
4 months
Via @nytimes, "Dr. @davidjmalan, a computer science professor, has integrated a custom A.I. chatbot into a popular class he teaches on the fundamentals of computer programming. His hundreds of students can turn to it for help with their coding assignments. Dr. Malan has had to
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@cs50
CS50
5 months
This was CS50x Puzzle Day 2025, a weekend of problem-solving with 12,707 participants from 166 countries. See https://t.co/1Lqh7nDaLc for the puzzles themselves, solutions thereto, fun facts, and more. Here’s what a few participants had to say: * “A perfect blend of logic,
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cs50.medium.com
That’s a wrap on CS50x Puzzle Day 2025!
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David J. Malan
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This is @CS50 at @UNLV, with the Harvard Club of Nevada, UNLV students, and local CS50x students, for a lecture on #AI. #education #community
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@cs50
CS50
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For @CS50 alumni in (or near!) Las Vegas, Nevada, an invitation to an in-person lecture on artificial intelligence (AI) with Prof. @davidjmalan on Monday, April 7, 2025, at 5:30pm PDT. Register at https://t.co/Sod7vc8tEL.
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eventbrite.com
An engaging, interactive, and entertaining discussion about how Prof. Malan and his team have created and are using AI in CS50 at Harvard.
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@cs50
CS50
5 months
CS50x Puzzle Day starts on Friday, April 4, and ends on Monday, April 7! 🧩 Make sure to register at https://t.co/SDbhmt0mMn. Good luck with this year's puzzles!
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David J. Malan
5 months
"In 2010, when we began to encourage students to take @CS50 without a letter grade... These are successful educational outcomes, for General Education courses like CS50 and beyond." https://t.co/HZCnPudSFS
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@cs50
CS50
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Q: What’s the story behind the @CS50 cat avatar? A: When CS50 first signed up for its social accounts years ago, we needed an avatar, so we decided to use the then-famous Happy Cat! 😸 #FAQ50
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CS50
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"@CS50, however, remains the largest class with corporate sponsorships. The popular introductory computer science class lists companies such as @Meta, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, @OpenAI, [and] @GitHub [...] as its partners... "Julia J. Poulson '26, a former CS50 student,
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CS50
7 months
"While @Yale shifts to more specialized computer science introductory courses, @davidjmalan, who teaches @CS50 at @Harvard, will focus on a new partnership with the @UniofOxford. However, Malan looks back on his partnership with Yale as a 'perfect proof of concept' that higher
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David J. Malan
8 months
"@davidjmalan joins The Culture Show [on @GBH] to talk about his vision for Arlington's @RegentTheatreMA. He is professor of computer science at @Harvard and he recently joined the historic Regent Theatre in Arlington as its operator." At 00:39:32. https://t.co/URkAMFFFpn
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wgbh.org
Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show to preview Embrace Boston’s Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace honors MLK gala, which celebrates the legacies of...
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Becki_in_Brum (official)
8 months
Epic day @cs50 Hackathon at @UniofOxford
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Becki_in_Brum (official)
8 months
@davidjmalan being a legend!
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@tomrocksmaths
Dr Tom Crawford
8 months
This is @cs50 in Oxford. What a day @stedmundhall with almost 200 people at the inaugural @UniofOxford cs50 hackathon. And just look at the giant ducks!!
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