Word: cs50
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...applied math concentration, for example, no longer requires CS50 but rather offers it as one of many ways to fulfill a credit...
...Kevin C. Gold `01, a teaching fellow for CS50 last semester, says he thought grading was the most difficult aspect of TFing his fellow undergrads because it occasionally required him to decide whether or not to pass students who are really struggling...
Demian Sanchez '00 took CS50, the introductory computer science course, with Maya. He recounts a meeting with the Ad Board just before Maya left school: "I was just trying to give Maya a hand with a difficult class and she was just trying to get her assignment working. In the administration's view, I ended up helping her too much, which was unfortunate because we both had good intentions in this collaboration...
Sheiber also says he sometimes feels that CS50 students get the short end of the educational stick because the methods for catching cases of plagiarism are far more sophisticated than in any other course...
...Since CS50 assignments are submitted as disks, it is easy for TFs to plug each one into a similarity comparison program...