MIT 18.S191/6.S083/22.S092 | Fall 2020
Introduction to Computational Thinking
by
Alan Edelman
,
David P. Sanders
,
Grant Sanderson
, &
James Schloss
,
Benoit Forget
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Course content
week 1
Lecture 1
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Images and Abstraction
Lecture 2
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Convolutions
Homework 1
week 2
Lecture 3
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Dynamic programming, Views and GPUs
Lecture 4
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Live coding seam carving
Homework 2
week 3
Lecture 5
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Structure and Dispatch
Lecture 6
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Understanding data
Homework 3
week 4
Lecture 7
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Introspection, COVID Data visualization
Lecture 8
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Probability via computation
week 5
Lecture 9
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Computational thinking, graphs are matrices, the expression problem
Lecture 10
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Graphs and disease spread
Homework 4
week 6
Lecture 11
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Epidemic modeling & Documenting code
Lecture 12
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Macroscopic models: discrete vs continuous
Homework 5
week 7
No class on 10/13 as per
MIT Calendar
Lecture 13
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Graphs and Network Dynamics
Homework 6
week 8
Lecture 14
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Raytracing, your own parallelism, abstract arrays
Lecture 15
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Billiard model and event-driven simulation
week 9
Lecture 16
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Raytracing in 3D
Lecture 17
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Raytracing live-coding
Homework 7
week 10
Lecture 18
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Hierarchical Thinking, Greedy Algorithms, Jacobi's Method, and Multigrid
Lecture 19
- Floating Point Arithmetic
Homework 8
week 11
Lecture 20
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Introduction to Climate Modeling, Nonlinear dynamics and Stability
Lecture 21
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Nonlinear Climate Dynamics and Snowball Earth
Homework 9
week 12
Lecture 22
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Diffusion Equation and Time and Space evolution
Lecture 23
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Heat Transfer by Ocean Currents
Homework 10
week 13
Lecture 24
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Ocean Modeling, Generic Programming
Lecture 25
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An overview of modern climate modeling
week 14
Lecture 26
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Discrete Fourier Transform
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Lecture 20 -- Introduction to Climate Modeling, Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability
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Introduction to Climate Modeling
Nonlinear Dynamics: Stability and bifurcation
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