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Rover emerged from the combined CS 50 projects of Alexander G. Bick ’10 and Winston X. Yan ’10. For his final project sophomore year, Bick made the Unofficial Guide to Harvard accessible by Smartphone. The following year, Yan expanded the application by incorporating the real-time “deals” feature. The application was later translated for the iPhone’s platform and became Rover...
...soon enough, the escapades of the “Upper C Side”, the group otherwise known as Canaday Cs, spread like, well, gossip. “It’s been growing exponentially,” says Crimson Girl, whose readership has grown to about seventy-five students and whose scope now includes the whole freshman class...
...central issue with the glut of As and A-minuses currently awarded by the college is not that they make students’ GPAs too high, but that they make their GPAs too similar. Grades lose meaning when everyone gets the same ones, whether they are As or Cs. Extending the GPA scale higher to 4.3 would differentiate grades a substantial amount and accomplish much of what grade deflation would...
...same people that brought you ShuttleBoy—before theweird call in thing—rolled out a new websiteHarvardMaps in conjunction with the Undergraduate Council today. The site, part of the CS 50 network and created by CS 50 Professor David Malan, is an attempt by the UC to begin streamlining room reservation systems in all the Undergraduate Houses and other locations across campus...
...article last Friday, The Crimson made a mistake that reveals reporters to be what we are (for the most part) -- more knowledgable about medieval fairytales than about computer science. In a story about Google's donation of 20 Android cell phones to the notorious introduction to computer science, CS 50, The Crimson quoted instructor David J. Malan '99 praising Google's "dragon drop programming piece" -- a fanciful typo that should have read, "drag and drop." Needless to say, Malan got a kick out of the typo and breathed a bit of fire back at The Crimson. After the jump...