r/cs50

Apparently, I'm starting my AIML journey as an 18 year old. Not entirely unknown to programming, know a bit of Java, but only at high school level. So I had opted for this programming with Python course, CS50P 2022. Is there any other course that I should opt for? Is this even the right course to do in 2026? My main aim is skill, so I can build my own projects using ML with Python as a tool.

Is there a universal kill switch somewhere in VSCode to turn this thing off?

I'm worried about academic integrity because no matter what settings I change VSCode keeps defaulting back to just... trying to complete assignments for me.

I've disabled Copilot, uninstalled the codex extension, disabled AI everywhere I can find to disable it, but then I will fire up VSCode, type something like def sum_two_numbers( and it will just.... fill in the function for me.

I'm just deleting it as soon as it happens but this isn't satisfactory because obviously it could give me answers I don't already know, but I just cannot find a way to disable it and stop it coming back and I don't want it doing this as I move through the course.

Web interface is the obvious solution to this but isn't a workable option for me as the time I have to work on CS50 is time I don't have reliable internet access.

So, I am in my 2nd semester and have already studied the programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, arrays and file handling in java ) and now doing oops. I have procrastinated cs50 for way too long and now I am thinking of starting to build some skills. Should I still start with cs50?

my working 9 to 5 python code

import re



def main():
    time = convert(input("Hours: "))
    print(time)



def convert(s):


    if s := re.search(r"^(\d{1,2})(?::(\d{2}))? (AM|PM) to (\d{1,2})(?::(\d{2}))? (AM|PM)$", s, re.IGNORECASE):
        time = list(s.groups())


        if time[1] == None:
            time[1] = 0


        if time[4] == None:
            time[4] = 0


        if int(time[1]) >= 60 or int(time[4]) >= 60 or int(time[3]) > 12 or int(time[0]) > 12:
            raise ValueError
        if (time[5].upper() == "AM") and (time[3] == "12"):
            x_hour = 0
        elif time[5].upper() == "PM":
            if int(time[3]) == 12:
                x_hour = 12
            else:
                x_hour = int(time[3]) + 12
        else:
            x_hour = int(time[3])


        if time[2].upper() == "PM":
            if int(time[0]) == 12:
                y_hour = 12
            else:
                y_hour = int(time[0]) + 12
        elif (time[2].upper() == "AM") and (time[0] == "12"):
            y_hour = 0
        else:
            y_hour = int(time[0])






        return f"{y_hour:02}:{int(time[1]):02} to {x_hour:02}:{int(time[4]):02}"


    raise ValueError


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

my test_working file

from working import convert
import pytest



def test_convert():
    assert convert("9 am to 5 pm") == "09:00 to 17:00"
    assert convert("4 pm to 5 am") == "16:00 to 05:00"
    assert convert("12:00 AM to 12:00 PM") == "00:00 to 12:00"
    assert convert("12 AM to 12 PM") == "00:00 to 12:00"
    assert convert("8:00 PM to 8:00 AM") == "20:00 to 08:00"
    assert convert("11 am to 11 pm") == "11:00 to 23:00"
    assert convert("3 am to 11:30 pm") == "03:00 to 23:30"


def test_1():


    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("16 pm to 5 am")


    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("8:60 AM to 4:60 PM")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("9AM to 5PM")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("09:00 to 17:00")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("10:7 AM - 5:1 PM")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("09 AM to 5:001 PM")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("16 pm to 5 am")


def test_2():


    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("11:60 am to 5:60 pm")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        convert("9 am - 5 pm")

https://preview.redd.it/afvvvx7vb9wg1.png?width=931&format=png&auto=webp&s=f86a840edc5198a0e7e98777ab59bb1cfa5de2a9

im working in my cs50p final project is it okay using ai for coding (of course im not just letting the ai do everything i understand every part of the code )

This is a huge feat for me personally. I have been procrastinating starting CS50x for more than a year (I got ADHD - I), but I finally started it 3 days ago.

Finished the week 0 lecture in a day and took 2 days to complete the project.

To be honest, I didn't want to submit the project cause I am still not satisfied with it. I mean I could add way more cooler features and improvise the project, but it will take me more time.

And I didn't want to get burned out in week 0 project itself so I decided to not focus on perfection and just decided to submit whatever I could do in 2 days.

Here is my project link, hope you can check it out sometime! = https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1308449674/

By the way, if you're just starting CS50x now or you're in around the same page as me, feel free to reach out! I got the momentum and all the time, so my only goal is gonna be completing this course properly in the next few months...

I have joined cs50 about 3 days ago and have been woking on a game which is kinda inspired from chrome's dinosaur game . But i am facing some problem on making the scores change when the dino jumps . Please someone check my project so you can understand what i am trying to say. It would mean alot if someone could help

Hello everyone, i have a question about the course, i took cs50x for two main reasons, to be able to think like a programmer, and to be able to develop video games using godot, godot uses gdscript, a coding language that is really similar to python, i have been watching cs50x for around a week now, problem sets were enjoyable to solve, but when tackling the mario problem, it been tough for me to comprehend, especially since i still have no idea how to exchange spaces with the hash symbols, i was able to make the tip of the pyramid, but when trying to make the rest, all i was able to do it to replicate the first line onto additional lines, not change it's contents, so i was wondering, do i really have to try to over and over until i eventually be able to solve it after a long while, or should i light watch the rest of the course, or is it better to pivot to sc50p since it's more appropriate for my goal to develop games using godot ?

Hey all,

So the check I'm failing is:

https://preview.redd.it/ftqxpp5phpvg1.png?width=755&format=png&auto=webp&s=1fe0e77f4d4582fa867f1d842212cdd5859b1f80

Upon debugging I did notice I need to treat decimals with .5 separately as round() was rounding 10.5% to 10% instead of 11%, otherwise all seems well. check50 doesn't show me what numbers it tests so I don't know how else to figure out what inputs it's not evaluating correctly. Any insight?

TIA!

I completed my WEEK 0 of cs50x, made a scratch project and submitted it but actually forgot to change a block from 3 seconds to 60 seconds (which basically sets the duration of the game). I submitted it through the links provided in the cs50.harvard website. But after 2-3 hours i noticed that i forgot to the 3 second to 60 second shift so i immediately did , saved it again and submitted it through the same links. Now it shows 2 submissions. Which one will they consider and is this going to affect my performance?

I started with cs50p watched 4lectures but didnt do the psets now thinking of starting with cs50x and then switch to python now everytime i log into the account and open the python course it's doesn't create any issue but whenever I'm trying to discover new course or open a new page my account is signing out why is this happening?

If I’m using the wrong tag sorry, lmk

I recently finished CS50 introduction to python and am moving onto CS50x and CS50 2D Game Design, just started the first lecture for 2D and the professor talked about using the engine Löve and the language Lua, neither of which I was familiar with. I wanted to get them going immediately because I just figured it’d be easier to take notes with actual code and comments.

Anyways, I downloaded Löve no problem, it seems a bit different than engines I’ve used in the past (I have limited experience with Godot, Unity, and Unreal, very limited truly) but I felt like I’d be fine so long as he explained how we were supposed to be loading programs into it.. he didn’t really. Just talked about using an extension to code in VSCode, okay, got that extension but VSCode is yelling at me about a debugger, so I got that too and it’s yelling at me about folders. I’m sure they’re not set up great, I have no idea what I’m doing, but.. shouldn’t it be able to load the file itself? Not doing anything crazy, literally just trying to make a window. I switched over to GitHub‘s codespace, I’m more familiar with that anyways, and I’m lost as to how that’s meant to access Love?

I’m truly hoping so bad I’m just being an idiot and missing something, I’m still a beginner so please excuse my ignorance, I just truly don’t know what to do but I really want to take this course and learn all I can! I found a YouTube tutorial for it and it seems way too involved, has to do with editing my computers environment variables? It also wasn’t explaining much, and I’m really getting lost with both Love’s and Lua’s documentation

Please if anyone can help I’d appreciate it endlessly

When I log in to the CS50P workspace, there isn't a button to run the code without debugging mode.

I have made my project in my own terminal, not in GitHub, but for the final project you need to submit50 it. I have images, a .db file and multiple .py files that import from each other.

Is the best I can do now copy-paste it all into GitHub? Or can I still submit it from my terminal?

I took a program on web development and one of the classes was python but only as a basic introduction to programming and not to use as backend. The entire program has only taught me frontend but I’d like to learn backend as well and touch up on some of the stuff I had a harder time with. My main professor who taught most of my classes wasn’t that great. Some of his material turned out to be seriously outdated. I would like to learn properly and get into backend now and I was wondering if it would be doable to skip the computer science cs50 class considering I already know the basics of python and JavaScript and web development. The python class was taught by a different professor who was actually a really great professor