Introduction to Game Development

David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a member of the Faculty of Education in the Graduate School of Education. He teaches Computer Science 50, otherwise known as CS50, which is among Harvard University's largest courses and edX's largest massive open online course (MOOC), with more than 7.1 million registrants. CS50 has also been offered at Yale University and the University of Oxford. He also teaches at Harvard Law School, Harvard Extension School, and Harvard Summer School, and has taught at Harvard Business School. All of his courses are freely available as OpenCourseWare, with more than 2.3 million subscribers on YouTube. Malan also operates the Regent Theatre, a 450-seat historic theater in Arlington, Massachusetts, built in 1916 as a vaudeville house, now a performing arts space operating as a public benefit company. Its mission is to promote positive effects of artistic, charitable, cultural, educational, or technological natures through operation of community theater and production of high-quality content.