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Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science (edX)

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Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science (edX)

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

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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:

  • Plotting with the pylab package
  • Random walks
  • Probability, Distributions
  • Monte Carlo simulations
  • Curve fitting
  • Knapsack problem, Graphs and graph optimization
  • Machine learning basics, Clustering algorithms
  • Statistical fallacies

This course is part of theComputational Thinking using Python XSeries program.

What you'll learn:

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

Prerequisites
6.00.1x - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python or equivalent (some prior programming experience in Python and a rudimentary knowledge of computational complexity)

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