This MIT course is an introduction to using computation to understand real-world phenomena.

6.00.2x will teach you how to use computation to accomplish a variety of goals and provides you with a brief introduction to a variety of topics in computational problem solving . This course is aimed at students with some prior programming experience in Python and a rudimentary knowledge of computational complexity. You will spend a considerable amount of time writing programs to implement the concepts covered in the course. For example, you will write a program that will simulate a robot vacuum cleaning a room or will model the population dynamics of viruses replicating and drug treatments in a patient’s body.

Topics covered include:

• Advanced programming in Python 3
• Knapsack problem, Graphs and graph optimization
• Dynamic programming
• Plotting with the pylab package
• Random walks
• Probability, Distributions
• Monte Carlo simulations
• Curve fitting
• Statistical fallacies

What you’ll learn:

• Plotting with the pylab package
• Stochastic programming and statistical thinking
• Monte Carlo simulations

Details:

• Length: 10 weeks
• Effort: 15 hours per week
• Price: Free
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• Institution: MITx
• Subject: Computer Science
• Level: Intermediate
• Languages: English
• Video Transcripts: English