Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
(Fall 2023)

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Lecture Material

In-person Lectures
Mon and Wed at 3pm-4:30pm
in 26-100 (no lecture recordings will be available!) Slides and Code
in Calendar below

Office Hours

In-person in 38-370 and on Zoom
(get a spot via the Help Queue)
No OH during lecture hours
OH start Thursday the first week
Monday-Thursday: 9am-9pm
Friday 9am-5pm

This Week's Pset

Finished with 6.100B Psets!

Recitation Schedule

In-person on Fridays (and optional)
10am in 2-190
11am in 2-190
1pm in 6-120
2pm in 6-120
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Calendar and Materials 6.100B - Fall 2023

View 6.100A Calendar
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
10/30: Lecture 1 zip
Introduction, optimization, knapsack problems
Readings: Ch 14.1, 5.4
Lec1 Finger Ex. out PS 0 out PS 1 out
10/31
11/1: Lecture 2 zip
Dynamic programming (including tabular method), complementary knapsack, pseudo polynomial complexity
Readings: Ch 15, 5.3.2
No L2 Finger Ex.
11/2
Microquiz 0 (testing microquiz mechanics, not for points, take it on your own between 4:30pm and 9:30pm)
11/3: Recitation 1 notes PS 0 due at 9PM (No checkoff for PS 0) Last Day We Accept Adds
11/6: Lecture 3 zip
Graphs, shortest path problems, DFS and BFS
Readings: Ch 14.2
Lec3 Finger Ex. out Lec1 Finger Ex. due PS 2 out
11/7 PS 1 due at 9PM
11/8: Lecture 4 zip
Stochastic thinking, probability, simulation
Readings: Ch 17.1-17.2
Microquiz 1 (20 minutes at the end of class)
PS 1 Checkoffs start No L4 Finger Ex.
11/9
11/10: Holiday No Class or OH
11/13: Lecture 5 zip
Random Walks
Readings: Ch 16
Lec5 Finger Ex. out Lec3 Finger Ex. due PS 3 out
11/14 PS 2 due at 9PM
11/15: Lecture 6 zip
Monte Carlo methods, variance, confidence intervals, roulette, pi
Readings: Ch 17.3, 18, 19.1
Microquiz 2 (20 minutes at the end of class)
PS 2 Checkoffs start No L6 Finger Ex.
11/16 PS 1 Checkoff due at 8PM
11/17: Recitation 2 notes
11/20: Lecture 7 zip
Distributions, CLT, sampling, standard error
Readings: Ch 17.4, 19
Lec7 Finger Ex. out Lec5 Finger Ex. due PS 4 out
11/21 PS 3 due at 9PM
11/22 No Class or OH
11/23: Holiday No Class or OH
11/24: Holiday No Class or OH
11/27: Lecture 8 zip
Epidemiology simulation
Lec8 Finger Ex. out Lec7 Finger Ex. due PS 3 Checkoffs start
11/28 PS 2 Checkoff due at 8PM
11/29: Lecture 9 zip
Curve fitting, linear regression, R**2, overfitting, choosing a degree, training and test sets
Readings: Ch 20
Microquiz 3 (30 minutes at the end of class)
PS 5 out No L9 Finger Ex.
11/30 PS 4 due at 9PM PS 3 Checkoff due at 8PM
12/1: Recitation 3 notes PS 4 Checkoffs start
12/4: Lecture 10 zip
Intro to machine learning, distance metrics, K-means clustering, scaling
Readings: Ch 24, 25
Lec10 Finger Ex. out Lec8 Finger Ex. due
12/5
12/6: Lecture 11 zip
Microquiz during class time
Readings: none
Microquiz 4 (45 minutes at the beginning of class)
No L11 Finger Ex.
12/7 PS 4 Checkoff due at 8PM
12/8: Recitation 4 notes
12/11: Lecture 12 zip
Classification, evaluating classifiers, K-nearest neighbors
Readings: Ch 26
Lec10 Finger Ex. due No L12 Finger Ex.
12/12 PS 5 due at 9PM (No checkoff for PS 5)
12/13: Lecture 13 zip
Statistical fallacies, wrap-up
Readings: Ch 22
No OH today or after No L13 Finger Ex.
12/14
12/15