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SPEAKER 1: The last
question so to speak is

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idly, what is the best
time in your opinion

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to get to yourself in particular,
one, disciplined in computer science

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rather than getting on
and on and just learning

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new things and new technologies?

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But eventually everyone, particularly
me, I just want to learn a job,

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and in a career for a tech company.

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So what time you recommend to just
getting, one, specifically disciplined,

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and then continue with only that
instead of going here and there

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and searching for the
next stuff to learn?

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SPEAKER 2: A good question.

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And, in fact, let me read
our last question aloud

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that [? Arsh ?] kindly pasted into
the chat window, which is similar.

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Have you heard of people going straight
into the field of technology right

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after CS50?

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And how much of a gulf is there between
the skill game from CS50 and the skill

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needed for a basic unpaid internship?

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That is, is it a good idea or feasible?

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So another angle on the same question.

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Generally speaking here
at Harvard, we recommend

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that students have taken CS50
and one other course, presumably

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a software class or an algorithms
and data structures class.

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That generally tends to be the
expectation of a lot of tech companies,

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that you've not just taken
one class, but you've

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taken a second that tends to round
out your knowledge, that gives you

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more experience and practice
with programming in particular,

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and frankly so that you
have a different perspective

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and you've not learned computer science
from just one person or one course,

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you've seen different
ways of solving problems.

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So I think it's very reasonable to take
something like CS50 for free online

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or through any of our various
channels and then take

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some follow-on class, maybe one
of MIT's, maybe Brian's web class,

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or AI class, or a class at
Princeton on algorithms,

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or any number of free courses, too.

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And then I think pursuing
a tech internship or paid

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or unpaid position is quite reasonable.

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So thank you both for that question.

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