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In Search of the Perfect Elective

A few drawbacks: the course is offered on Thursday evenings from 4:10 to 6:10. And it's limited to 30 undergraduates.

Gould, Dershowitz and Cox were not available for comment. They were, presumably, thinking.

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Getting With the Program

The idea of waking up for a 9 a.m. quantitative reasoning elective three times a week may seem scary, but Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert isn't worried about turnout for his class Quantitative Reasoning 20: "Algorithms and Data Structures."

Bossert is limiting enrollment to 60 students for his course, an interactive approach to teaching computer programming.

Bossert, who describes his class as "a programming course for non-specialists," says it will fill a gap in Harvard's curriculum, providing a concurrent alternative to the oft-dreaded Computer Science 50.

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