Coding Mantis

CS50: Week 1 , Fall 2012

Sun 30 June 2013

My Experience (Till now)

CS50 is Harvard’s most famous course and the institutes first course to be featured in edX. There are literally no pre-requisites other than a computer and a working net connection.It’s specifically targets people who are new to the field of computer science. After completing Week0 , I am battling pset1 now , which is about generating half-pyramids, just like in mario.

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But we’ve got to use hashes and the output will ask for pyramid height and it has to look something like this -

Height: 8
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Even though it seems like a child’s play , believe me its not (Edit: For beginners), atleast not for beginners like me! , the main problem is/are the loops and nesting , and after that you also need to find a logic b/w the no. of spaces , sharps and new lines.

Dunno how am I supposed to solve it ?! ,but anyway I’ll keep on trying…thinking to pull off an all nighter now :P

BTW the lectures , shorts and sections are just superb ! They take programming to just another level.Trust me if you are interested in CS then you definitely need to check out this course , and if you complete it and submit all the psets on time , then you are also awarded a certificate , signed by David J. Malan , that too for free. ;)

PS:- There is one more problem in this pset , called “Greedy” in which we have to code a program which returns out minimum change for an amount of money, but more on that later, gotta code now ;P !

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