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SPEAKER 1: I'm from Brazil.

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And I'm going to read the question
from the form, because it's quite long.

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So for the last two years, CS50 has
gone through some important changes

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It has transitioned from using PHPS--

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it has transitioned from using PHP
to using Python as the back-up--

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at the back-end language.

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Some videos from the shorts
don't feature anymore

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in the list of recommended
videos to watch.

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The web development focused content
has been moved from the regular course

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syllabus to being an individual track,
[INAUDIBLE] with games Android and iOS

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tracks.

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And new courses like Web Development
with Python and JavaScript

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have been created and
released for free on edX.

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So many changes have happened
in the last few years.

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So my question is what
other changes and new stuff

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do you visualize happen
in the next 5 or 10 years?

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And what kind of path do you see
CS50 taking in the near future?

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SPEAKER 2: That's a
really good question.

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And frankly, I would love to
know the answer to your question.

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But a couple of thoughts
do come to mind.

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I do think you've highlighted a
number of the evolutionary changes

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that we've made over the past few
years from languages to structures

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of the class.

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For context, any of the
changes we've made year

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after year are usually in
response to changing trends,

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either in industry or
in education, or just

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because it's becoming
easier to introduce students

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to more powerful techniques thanks
to new and popular languages

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and frameworks and the like.

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So for instance, the PHP to Python
change was a very conscious decision.

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We thought about it probably
for two or three years.

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And at some point, we felt there was an
inflection point where Python was just

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becoming so popular, and it was
useful not only for web programming,

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but for command line programs, but for
data science applications and the like,

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that it was just a very well
rounded language, and therefore,

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might serve students better
during and also after CS50.

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And so finally, that
tipped us over the edge.

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I think moving forward
in the future, honestly,

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if we knew what we might do
differently in 5 or 10 years,

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we would probably just do
it right now if we could.

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But I do hope that we will be
able to do all the more real world

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examples, real world
integrations with students

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that use for instance,
web-based APIs, third party data

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services, and the like.

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Because one of the constraints
right now, not so much

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on campus where you have the luxury
of very good internet and everyone

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has access to a computer,
but globally, not everyone

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has great internet access or very
fast or very inexpensive internet,

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let alone an actual computer.

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And so I think once we are 5 or 10 more
years down the road and bandwidth is

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better and people have better,
more powerful phones and laptops

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and desktops, I think we'll be able
to do more with those resources,

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and students will be able to learn and
also produce even more amazing projects

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by building on the libraries
and the frameworks that

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are then very much in vogue.

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So if I had to guess, I think
there will be more integration

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with internet connectivity if
possible, because right now,

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we tend to avoid
dependencies on the internet.

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And the only counterexample
to this really

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annually, is CS50 finance,
where we actually pull real time

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data from a third party site.

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That's an example of a project that
works great for a lot of students,

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but not for all students, if you
need that constant connectivity.

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And so in fact, one of the
projects [? Kareem ?] and the team

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have also been working on are
tools like an offline CS 50

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IDE, so that if you don't have great
internet access or if you're in a plane

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or on a train, you can still
learn and still create.

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So we're hoping those things are
easier too in the years to come.

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