CS50, Harvard's largest undergraduate computer science course, held its 11th annual project fair in the Smith Campus Center on Friday.
​Staff for CS50 have changed the way they report academic dishonesty cases to the Honor Council roughly a year after a wave of cheating swept the class.
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Economics retained its position as the most popular concentration at the College this fall, with 671 undergraduates—​a slight increase from last year.
The new policy was one of many sweeping changes made to the class this year after more than 60 students appeared before the College's Honor Council in 2016.
In its report, the Honor Council obliquely referenced CS50, writing that "one large introductory course" had skewed the data for last year.
If you are enrolled in my class, you actually have to come to my lectures. No longer can you be in my class and not be in my class. This isn't Schrödinger's Class, Bubble Bass.
Keeping in line with last fall's enrollment numbers, Economics 10 edged out Computer Science 50 as the College's most sought-after class.
CS50 held an orientation this afternoon in the Science Center for students taking the course.
Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris implored students in the CS50 not to cheat on assignments at an orientation session Wednesday night.
Students shopping one of Harvard's most popular undergraduate courses will arrive in Sanders Theater tomorrow to a changed CS50.
Only five Yale students faced academic dishonesty charges involving computer code for any course in fall 2016.