Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

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This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small…

Eric Grimson, John Guttag

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Lecture 10: Divide and conquer methods, merge sort, exceptions

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Lecture 03: Common code patterns: iterative programs

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Lecture 23: Stock market simulation

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Lecture 24: Course overview; what do computer scientists do?

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Lecture 22: Normal, uniform, and exponential distributions; misuse of statistics

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Lecture 21: Validating simulation results, curve fitting, linear regression

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Lecture 19: Biased random walks, distributions

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Lecture 20: Monte Carlo simulations, estimating pi

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Lecture 18: Presenting simulation results, Pylab, plotting

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Lecture 17: Computational models: random walk simulation

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Lecture 16: Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing

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Lecture 15: Abstract data types, classes and methods

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Lecture 13: Dynamic programming: overlapping subproblems, optimal substructure

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Lecture 09: Binary search, bubble and selection sorts

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Lecture 08: Complexity; log, linear, quadratic, exponential algorithms

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Lecture 14: Analysis of knapsack problem, introduction to object-oriented programming

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Lecture 12: More about debugging, knapsack problem, introduction to dynamic programming

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Lecture 07: Lists and mutability, dictionaries, pseudocode, introduction to efficiency

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Lecture 11: Testing and debugging

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Lecture 02: Operators and operands; statements; branching, conditionals, and iteration

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Lecture 06: Bisection methods, Newton/Raphson, introduction to lists

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Lecture 05: Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots

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Lecture 04: Decomposition and abstraction through functions; introduction to recursion

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Lecture 01: Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data types, operators, and variables

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