# CS50's Computer Science for Business

- Institution: Harvard University
- Department: CS50
- Teacher: David J. Malan
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CS50 at Harvard](https://cs50.harvard.edu/business/)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://cs50.harvard.edu/business/syllabus/)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This course is a variant of CS50x designed especially for employees and employers. Whereas CS50x takes a bottom-up approach, emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto. Ultimately this course empowers students to make technological decisions even if not technologists themselves. Topics include cloud computing, networking, privacy, scalability, security, and more, with an emphasis on web and mobile technologies. Students emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide their decision-making. This course is designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision-makers more generally.

How to Take this Course

Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to “take” this course for free via this OpenCourseWare by working your way through the course’s nine weeks of material. For each week, follow this workflow:

flowchart TD A\[Watch Lecture\] --> B\[Submit Assignment\]

To submit the course’s assignments for feedback, be sure to create an edX account, if you haven’t already. Ask questions along the way via any of the course’s communities!

## Lectures

1. [Interpreting Information](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/8fd76de27358) (Video)
2. [Analyzing Algorithms](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/50855b644b55) (Video)
3. [Designing Data Structures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/60889a78d193) (Video)
4. [Practicing Programming](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/c52eacc248fd) (Video)
5. [Approaching Artificial Intelligence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/dcc471d48434) (Video)
6. [Implementing the Internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/26675667c9a0) (Video)
7. [Weaving the Web](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/8eb0d731fc7d) (Video)
8. [Deploying Databases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/5e703f18cc49) (Video)
9. [Securing Systems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cs50/business/0ed35db7c66f) (Video)