everyone this is Jason Hirschhorn all
the way down from Hanover New Hampshire
to be here today at the cs50 fair I took
cs50 as a freshman about ten years ago
which is crazy to think that on how much
has happened since then not only did I
learn CS but since then I've worked as a
TA at Harvard I taught cs50 at Yale and
now I'm teaching the cs50 to high school
students in Hanover New Hampshire but
none of that matters right now what
matters right now is who I'm here with
you introduce yourself please hi
everyone I'm son team dozen from
California and I'm a freshman here at
Harvard he's pull out to California nice
how do you feel what you're you I'm a
freshman
freshman so how do you feel being here
compared to California I know it's a
rough transition the the weather is very
different yeah but I'm just glad to be
here like experience snow for the first
time and just like good to be here like
during the holidays everybody makes the
snow makes it seem like me like
Christmastime is this your winter outfit
yeah I know it's not that good today so
yeah you have a jacket yeah yeah and a
brand new brand new how long have you
owned them for about a month
oh my god yeah order them online yeah
they are
some black timberland boots are pretty
good yeah well good luck thank you
I'll both talking for years okay yeah
okay so tell us about your project what
was the inspiration behind your project
and what is it all right so basically my
buddies called what's the move and it
was inspired by a lot of frustrating
weekend's where I was just sitting
around thinking what's the move you know
like Harvard's not a big state school so
it's not known for its parties so me and
my friends were sitting there and
wondering what parties have you go to
and it was always a struggle to find a
party so basically I can show me how it
works
basically I create a website that tracks
other parties and essentially on the
very beginning of the page it says the
party name what dorm slash house the
party's in okay the room the room number
the day and who who the parties hosted
by okay using a lot of parties yeah okay
if I want to post a party what do I do
essentially you click the button that
says make party I like that and say what
kind of party you want to do what's my
party name um
Computer Science and cookies okay
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say that's a party where we're gonna
bake cookies and talk about computer
science that sounds like a party got to
go to let's put it but it's gonna be at
night because it's gonna be lit so
that's that's tomorrow night I don't
want it to x' day okay Friday let's go
Friday Friday we're 10 11 12 13 13 right
right yeah 13 9 p.m. that sounds good
all right today people are gonna get
there till like 9:30 yeah that's yeah
okay say you say you live in thing no I
don't mean they're all right I lived in
Kirkland Kirkland okay
sit in Kirkland and room oh my gosh
let's go with B 4 B 4 before what here
we go so you take post party and then go
back to the page and that is computer
science cookies like Kirkland before and
the date and trusted by Johnny that's
fantastic Johnny please Johnny oh that's
like a fake name that was you folks I'm
logged in already Johnny knows that mine
is my party so essentially say I said
Johnny went to RSVP RSVP to his own
party you know okay so he takes his
party and since he's hosting the party's
gonna be in cookies right okay RSVP and
say I wonder who's going to our party
you know you click rzp info and you say
we flick your party and you get more
info and as I'm now John is only one
attending and he's bringing cookies he
showed me the map yeah
this is what oh my goodness so
essentially right as of now my my map
when he works with with dorms in the
yard okay so essentially wherever an
emoji is is a party's being held and
based on the number that's been the case
the number of parties being held at that
location so as you can see I mean
there's that there is always popping and
there's four parties happening there and
why are we here
exactly if you click the emoji it takes
you to a table that says all the parties
names where they aren't they obviously
and when they're happening and who
they're hosted by you're surely when
there you go and that's basically it I
think this is phenomenal they how so
three months ago when you arrived here
and you signed up for CS to take cs50
how much computer science did you know
how much programming did you know I took
in two years in high school okay I had a
little bit of experience so what was
this experience like was that me a new
experience and I could see how fast I
was learning new languages cuz like
before this I had only known Python okay
and a little bit of JavaScript but I
came here and I learned I don't how to
work with databases I learned how to
work with api's and it was just an
incredible experience you know it's like
something that that I would I would get
people talk about you know if you would
always say like oh I'm making a website
that's working with databases and the
networks and this and that and then just
being able to make a super project that
works it some of those things isn't
simple it's impressive they all by
yourself yeah they probably and other
finals and papers to write and you're
cold yeah so I know just like being able
to make something myself that like shows
how much I've learned is really cool
that's fantastic so do you think you're
gonna go home your dear finals go home
take a break when you come back do you
think you want to take more computer
science classes does that mean you want
to do definitely I came in as a gov
major and and I don't know I think I'm
now I'm like I'm kind of indecisive I'm
thinking think of and computer science
now did you take that 10 all right
what's the intro cup course gov 20 I'm
saying you take up 20 and then wasn't
this fun SBI
I wasn't prompting that but you learn in
your first fancy okay thanks so much for
joining us your project congratulations
good luck in the winter thank you