About
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 programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python™ programming language.
Course Homepage: 16.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
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Videos

Lecture 3: Common code patterns: iterative programs
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 8: Complexity; log, linear, quadratic, exponential algorithms
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 1: Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data types,...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 13: Dynamic programming: overlapping subproblems, optimal substructure
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 16: Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 11: Testing and debugging
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 10: Divide and conquer methods, merge sort, exceptions
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 17: Computational models: random walk simulation
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Lecture 7: Lists and mutability, dictionaries, pseudocode, introduction to effic...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 14: Analysis of knapsack problem, introduction to object-oriented progra...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 2: Operators and operands; statements; branching, conditionals, and iter...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 12: More about debugging, knapsack problem, introduction to dynamic prog...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 23: Stock market simulation
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 15: Abstract data types, classes and methods
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 21: Validating simulation results, curve fitting, linear regression
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 9: Binary search, bubble and selection sorts
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 18: Presenting simulation results, Pylab, plotting
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 22: Normal, uniform, and exponential distributions; misuse of statistics...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 20: Monte Carlo simulations, estimating
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 24: Course overview; what do computer scientists do?
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 19: Biased random walks, distributions
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Lecture 4: Decomposition and abstraction through functions; introduction to recu...
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 5: Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots
Apr 17, 2010
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Lecture 6: Bisection methods, Newton/Raphson, introduction to lists
Apr 17, 2010
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