This is CS50’s introduction to computer science for business professionals.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science for business professionals, designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision-makers more generally. Whereas CS50 itself 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. Through lectures on computational thinking, programming languages, internet technologies, web development, technology stacks, and cloud computing, this course empowers you to make technological decisions even if not a technologist yourself. You’ll emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide your decision-making.

  • Institution: HarvardX
  • Subject: Computer Science
  • Level: Introductory
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • computational thinking
  • programming languages
  • internet technologies
  • web development
  • technology stacks
  • cloud computing


David J. Malan
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Harvard University