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Less than a week after Computer Science 50 Lecturer David J. Malan ’99 announced in an e-mail to his course staff that the introductory coding class would switch to a satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system, administrators within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and CS50 teaching fellows have expressed reservations about Malan’s plan—which might delay the grading change until the fall...
...teaching fellows contacted for this article declined to speak on the record, with several citing an e-mail from A. Cansu Aydede ’11, the head TF for CS50, asking all inquiries to be directed to herself and Malan. Malan declined to comment until final decisions have been made...
...nature of letter grades, we end up drawing lines (between A and A-, A- and B+, B+ and B, et al.) between values that sometimes differ by .02 percent, and the world proceeds to give those lines far too much weight,” Malan wrote in an e-mail to the CS50 teaching staff sent yesterday...
...earlier version of the Apr. 16 news article "Malan Plans to Cut Letter Grades for CS50" incorrectly stated that starting next fall, all students will be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis in Computer Science 50. In fact, some students will be allowed to take the course for a letter grade...
...receive letter grades per General Education policy. To clarify, in addition, CS50 will continue to be offered with letter-graded status for departments that expect the course as a letter-graded concentration requirement or for students who prefer to receive a letter grade, according to course instructor David J. Malan...