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Within a few days of Malan’s April 15 announcement of a new grading plan, faculty within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences voiced worries about whether changing the CS50 grading scheme would complicate students’ abilities to take the class for credit.
While Malan’s preliminary sat/unsat plan would still have allowed students to take the course for a grade in order to satisfy concentration or General Education requirements—or if they simply wanted to receive a letter grade—SEAS Dean Cherry A. Murray said that...
In his e-mail to The Crimson, Malan said that his future plans for CS50 would revolve not so much around changing the course grading scheme as changing student attitudes toward the introductory coding class.
Students had mixed feelings about the decision to retain the current CS50 grading scheme.
In general, CS 50 students already express enthusiasm about the material. However, this grading policy change could discourage individuals from devoting energy to it—to their detriment. No matter how good their intentions, students pressed for time unavoidably prioritize work for classes in which they will be receiving...