Program Overview

Program Overview

The Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Python Programming is a series of CS50 courses taught by renowned faculty to gain a robust understanding of computer science and programming.

Program Details

• Duration: 6 months
• Number of courses: 2
• Certificate: Earn a Professional Certificate upon completion

What You'll Learn

This program provides an introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming using Python. The two-course program includes:

• CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science, focusing on computer science and programming with Python, C, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• CS50P: Introduction to Programming with Python, covering how to read and write code, test and debug it, with hands-on exercises inspired by real-world programming problems

Learning Outcomes

• Concepts: abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development
• Familiarity with languages: Python, C, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Skills: handling exceptions, finding and fixing bugs, writing unit tests, using third-party libraries, validating and extracting data with regular expressions

Instructors

• David J. Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Brian Yu
• Doug Lloyd

Job Outlook

Python programming skills are in high demand, with over 756,000 unique job postings in the US in 2021, a 29% increase from 2020.