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Professional Certificate Series

Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Web Programming

Join Harvard Online in this series of CS50 courses taught by renowned faculty to learn how to scale your web applications.

    • 2 Courses
    • 6 Months
    • Earn Your Certificate
    What You'll Learn

    The web is a crucial part of our everyday lives.

    We rely on websites not just for entertainment and social networking, but for our professions, our finances, our education, and even aspects of our health care. The technologies that run these services are intricate and varied, but there are frameworks and principles that use common languages like HTML and Python that can give you a jump start in building your own web apps. This professional certificate series combines CS50’s legendary Introduction to Computer Science course with a new program that takes a deep dive into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Flask, Django, and Bootstrap. Through hands-on projects, you'll learn to write and use APIs, create interactive UIs, and leverage cloud services like GitHub and Heroku. You'll emerge with knowledge and experience in principles, languages, and tools that empower you to design and deploy applications. Join now to program your own web applications and gain critical skills in database design, scalability, security, and user experience.

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    Learning Outcomes

    How to scale your web applications and keep track of changes made to code, synchronize code between different people, and test changes to code

    Learning Outcomes

    The various ways an API can be used

    Learning Outcomes

    Familiarity in a number of languages, including C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript plus CSS and HTML

    2 Courses

    Beyond our premium learning paths you can still earn certificates

    CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

    10-20 hours a week

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    CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

    6-9 hours per week

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    Learn from the best in the industry

    Meet your instructors

    Brian Yu

    Brian Yu

    David J. Malan

    David J. Malan

    Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

    Doug Lloyd

    Doug Lloyd

    Job Outlook

    From 2018-2028, the job outlook for web developers is expected to increase by 13% much faster than the average. (Source: Occupational Outlook Handbook)
    Web developer jobs are listed as one of the top 10 best low-stress, high-paying jobs. (Source: U.S. News)

    The top 20% of web developers earn a salary of over $126,000. (Source: CareerExplorer)