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CS50's Introduction to Game Development (Harvard)

Rebuild Mario, Zelda and Pong to learn how games really work — Harvard's game-dev course, free.

  • Computer Science
Who can enter
Anyone worldwide — free to audit; some prior programming helps
What it costs
Free to take, and CS50 issues its own free certificate from cs50.harvard.edu. The paid one is the OPTIONAL edX verified certificate, and it is not cheap — roughly $200-300 depending on the course (Harvard lists $219 for CS50 Python). You never need it: the course, the problem sets and the free CS50 certificate cost nothing.
When it closes
We could not confirm this year's date against the organiser's own page, so we are not showing a countdown for it. Last published: Self-paced online — enrol and start any time (free to audit).
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