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Students who wish to satisfy General Education requirements with the course—9 percent of last semester’s class—will be able to receive letter grades per General Education policy. CS50 will continue to be offered with letter-graded status for departments that expect the...
Citing the success of similar grading systems at Harvard Law School and at MIT—where freshmen do not receive letter grades their first semester—Malan said that CS50 students would be able to focus more on the material rather than the grade itself.
Head teaching fellow Ayse Cansu Aydede ’11 added that she believed this change will allow students to respond better to the qualitative feedback they receive, as they will not be distracted with points lost in problem sets and quizzes.
More than 300 applicants contended for these spots, typically held by Harvard or MIT graduate students who receive free room and board in exchange for monitoring and advising undergraduates.
Expository Writing Senior Preceptor and Harding’s former colleague Karen L. Heath acknowledged that while it is rare for an author to receive the prestigious award for his first novel, Paul’s award was well deserved.