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SPEAKER: At the end of
the day, CS50 is all

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about empowering you with an
understanding of principles

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and computer science, as well as
with ideas and the application

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of programming to solving problems.

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It's absolutely been the case
that a lot of CS50 students

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have benefited from
that sort of background

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and been able, therefore, to go off and
pursue jobs that are then of interest.

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With that said, I would
encourage you, nonetheless,

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to take not just a course like CS50,
but perhaps at least one other as well,

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that affords you an additional
opportunity to practice

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and to apply all of those
same lessons learned,

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or better yet, to find a
personal project of interest

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that you can tackle so as
to figure out on your own,

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without a printed homework assignment,
exactly how you can use code

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to solve those problems.

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After all, in the real
world, if it's indeed

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a job in technology and
programming you seek,

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that's exactly what
you'll likely be tackling,

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is problems that are much less
defined than problem sets themselves,

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but ones that, as a result, will give
you all the more satisfaction when

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you yourself are able to solve them.

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