bakedaubergine

Hello David Malan!

Oh wow. I didn’t think I’d ever get to thank you one on one. This is amazing. CS50 is by far the best MOOC out there and what you do (and how you do it) has had such a profound effect on me, I can’t even begin to tell you! I came across this while revisiting programming a couple of years after college and you have made me look at it in an all new light. So, thank you for that. I am so very grateful to you and your team for opening up your resources to those who can’t access them for whatever reasons. This is what learning and more importantly, teaching should be about, ideally. And CS50 in itself, btw, is no less than a piece of art. Props to Rob for being the most entertaining TA to have ever walked the earth. :D

My question is about the way this whole course is conducted. Where I come from, there is no way in hell a technical and a fairly difficult subject like this could be taught in such an interesting and effective way. Do you have any tips for a volunteer teacher with much less resources to conduct a course on math/programming?

Do you ever worry that there will be a point of no return in autonomous robotics and everything will go downhill from there? This could be really, really far away in the future but do you see that as a possibility?