“This was CS50”: Yale ends largest computer science course
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CS50 is produced by Harvard and is opencourseware (free) that isn't going away.
What is changing is that Yale won't be offering CS50 courses going forward, seemingly due to funding issues.
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Good news. After reading the article, it seems like the content and the course will still exist, it is just that Yale has decided that it cant afford to pay ULA's to support the class.
For those who just want to learn, the course content can still be found here: https://www.edx.org/cs50
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I got to the pokémon game, and it doesn't work and I couldn't work out why and beat my head against it in my freetime for a week until I just gave up...
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You can still take it from Harvard I think?
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Nobody understands endowments. Universities only use the interest earned from them as investments. And Apple makes more revenue in a quarter than Harvard has in their entire endowment - and theirs is the largest.
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It’s only the Yale version that is ending.
The original course from Harvard with Prof. Malan is still going strong -
It’s only the Yale version that is ending. The original in Harvard is going nowhere.
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Yes it is all online for free
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I assume Yale isn't broke but idk. Universities are just like any other business where they will cut products that aren't making money or performing as well as others. The article talks about the course needing many teacher assistants to field student questions and hold labs, and that originally these costs were covered by a donation which has now run out.
It also could just be some internal politics and blaming it on financials is the public reason.
But you're not wrong that student tuition costs should theoretically go to the courses they sign up for
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Into the pockets of the 1%. Our entire country is designed for the 1% to fleece every thing we do for their own profit. Thats why our defense budget is out of control. That is why healthcare costs are out of control. That is why we spend the most per student on education with terrible results.
The same shit happens in Russia. The oligarchs steal money from everyone and everything. With Elon Musk on the throne, the US is now every bit as corrupt and broken as Russia is.
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Yale is not broke. Yale is sitting on a $40 billion endowment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
