Harvard University offers 5 free online courses(CS50) for computer programmers or those interested in Software Engineering.

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II. CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch

III. CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

IV. CS50’s Introduction to Game Development

V. CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

VI. How to apply for Harvard University 5 free online courses(CS50′)

VII. Apply Now

Harvard University is offering a scholarship for several online courses for computer programmers to help students and beginners develop strong programming skills and build a successful and sustainable career.

Harvard University has further announced several new free online courses for aspiring programmers and Computer Science students.

The University has been setting the pace in offering the best online courses in the computer programming domain to help students and beginners develop strong programming skills and build a sustainable career in technology over time.

The recently launched courses can be accessed for free. Here are the details –

Harvard offers 5 free online CS50's classes — Harvard offers 5 free online CS50’s classes

CS50’s Understanding Technology

The CS50’s Understanding Technology course is designed for people who are working with technology every day even without understanding how it all works. This course fills in the gaps, empowering beginners to use and troubleshoot technology more effectively and efficiently.

The 6-week long course includes lectures on hardware, the Internet, security , multimedia , web development , and programming .

Further details-

The Course duration: 6 Weeks
Instructor: David J Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch

Using Scratch, this course introduces students to fundamentals of programming, found not only in Scratch itself but in traditional text-based languages (like Java and Python) as well.

Scratch is a visual programming language, designed at MIT’s Media Lab, to empower students with no prior programming experience to design their own animations, games, interactive art, and stories.

The course includes important elements of a programming language, including, but not limited to, functions, events, return values, conditions, variables, loops, and more.

Ultimately, this course prepares students for further courses in programming.

Further details

The Course duration: 3 Weeks
Instructor: David J Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

This entry-level course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently and effectively.

The course is specifically designed for freshers and includes concepts like algorithms , abstraction , data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development.

Languages include C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript plus CSS and HTML.

Further details

The Course duration: 11 Weeks
Commitment: 10-20 hours per week
Instructors: David J Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Doug Lloyd – Senior Preceptor in Computer Science, Harvard University
Brian Yu – Senior Preceptor in Computer Science, Harvard University
CS50’s Introduction to Game Development

This course is more like a hands-on experience for learners as they explore the design and development of 2D and 3D interactive games such as Super Mario Bros, Pong, Flappy Bird, Breakout, Match 3, Legend of Zelda, Angry Birds, Pokémon, 3D Helicopter Game, Dreadhalls, and Portal.

Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using frameworks like Unity and LÖVE 2D, as well as languages like Lua and C#.

Further details

The Course duration: 12 Weeks
Commitment: 6-9 hours per week
Instructors: David J Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Colton Ogden – Technologist, Harvard University
CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

This special course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation.

Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs.

Further details

The Course duration: 7 Weeks
Commitment: 10-30 hours per week
Instructor: David J Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.