SPEAKER: At the end of the day, CS50 is all
about empowering you with an understanding of principles
and computer science, as well as with ideas and the application
of programming to solving problems.
It's absolutely been the case that a lot of CS50 students
have benefited from that sort of background
and been able, therefore, to go off and pursue jobs that are then of interest.
With that said, I would encourage you, nonetheless,
to take not just a course like CS50, but perhaps at least one other as well,
that affords you an additional opportunity to practice
and to apply all of those same lessons learned,
or better yet, to find a personal project of interest
that you can tackle so as to figure out on your own,
without a printed homework assignment, exactly how you can use code
to solve those problems.
After all, in the real world, if it's indeed
a job in technology and programming you seek,
that's exactly what you'll likely be tackling,
is problems that are much less defined than problem sets themselves,
but ones that, as a result, will give you all the more satisfaction when
you yourself are able to solve them.
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