Beginning in October, Oxford University will launch its own online version of Computer Science 50, Harvard’s flagship introductory computer science course taught by David J. Malan ’99.

The “CS50 bot” will be able to respond to frequently-asked student questions and is anticipated to be a more accessible version of a classroom professor.

CS50, which requires no prior programming experience, covers topics including abstraction, algorithms and data structures as well as programming languages such as C, Python and SQL. The course serves ...

Among the long list of tech luminaries who have passed through Harvard's introductory computer science course CS50 is YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who recently recorded a video for the college ...