# I took CS50, and you can too

Well, it's coronavirus chaos where I live in Tennessee.  Everyone's freaking out about masks and handwashing and yes, the lack of toilet paper.  However, I was slightly relieved to be out of school and the pandemic gave me some time to work on my dev skills.  I didn't expect to be taking a Harvard course, though!

[CS50](http://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020) is probably the most famous computer science class in the Ivy League school and maybe the world.  It's a beginner's introduction to computer science, but at the same times one of the most challenging courses at the school.  It begins with [Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu) and basic CS fundamentals, but by the end of the 8-week course you're building full-stack webapps with Python, SQL, and HTML/CSS.  

I'm currently finishing up the fourth week, which covers the C language.  C isn't one of my favorites (in fact, I downright hate it because of its monolithic, ancient approach), but I've learned a lot about low-level computing and just plain logic.  It's more comprehensive and structured than any course I've taken on Codecademy (which is still a great option for beginners).  

I highly recommend that anyone with the spare time should take CS50.  It's definitely changed my views about programming and how computers _really_ work.  The class is huge, so huge that it has communities on just about every social media network - Stack Exchange, Reddit, Gitter, anything you can imagine.  So what are you waiting for?  Go take CS50!

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