introduction to
Scientific Computing
Course Schedule
Week One
- Tuesday, January 9
- Introduction to the course
- Making sure everyone has anaconda properly installed
- Python basics: variables and lists
- Wednesday, January 10
- Introduction to plotting with matplotlib
- Friday, January 12
- Exercise do to before class.
- Introduction to differential equations
- Introduction to for loops
Week Two
- Tuesday, January 16
- Exercises do to before class.
- In class we'll go over loops and talk a bunch more about differential equations and I will present
Euler's method.
- Wednesday, January 17
- Friday, January 19
- Systems of ODEs
- Assignment due*
at the end of the day.
Week Three
- Tuesday, January 16
- Exercises do to before class.
- More epidemic models and odeint.
- Wednesday, January 24
- More epidemic models. If statements.
- Friday, January 26
- Class starts at 10am!
- End ODEs. Begin random numbers.
- Assignment due*
at the end of the day.
List of Assignments