Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python by John V Guttag
The new edition of an introductory text that teaches students the art of computational problem solving, covering topics ranging from simple algorithms to information visualization.This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques, including some of the tools and techniques of data science for using computation to model and interpret data. The book is based on an MIT course (which became the most popular course offered through MIT's OpenCourseWare) and was developed for use not only in a conventional classroom but in in a massive open online course (MOC). This new edition has been updated for Python 3, reorganized to make it easier to use for courses that cover only a subset of the material, and offers additional material including five new chapters.Students are introduced to Python and the basics of programming in the context of such computational concepts and techniques as exhaustive enumeration, bisection search, and efficient approximation algorithms. Although it covers such traditional topics as computational complexity and simple algorithms, the book focuses on a wide range of topics not found in most introductory texts, including information visualization, simulations to model randomness, computational techniques to understand data, and statistical techniques that inform (and misinform) as well as two related but relatively advanced topics: optimization problems and dynamic programming. This edition offers expanded material on statistics and machine learning and new chapters on Frequentist and Bayesian statistics.-
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How to Write a Thesis
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The Invincible
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The Embodied Mind
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Architecture Depends
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Learning From Las Vegas
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Understanding Media
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One Place after Another
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Theory of Colours
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His Master's Voice
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
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The Outer Limits of Reason
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Health Design Thinking
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Collage City
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Speculative Everything
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The Four Books on Architecture
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Artificial Unintelligence
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Hamlet on the Holodeck
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The Elusive Quest for Growth
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The Sciences of the Artificial
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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
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The Architectural Uncanny
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How Change Happens
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The Elements of Computing Systems
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
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Consciousness
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Frankenstein
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How Attention Works
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Growth
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Remediation
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A Primer of Visual Literacy
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The Theory of Industrial Organization
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Spotify Teardown
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Models of My Life
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Eccentric Spaces
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Zen and the Brain
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The Little Schemer
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The Deleuze Connections
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Engineering and the Mind's Eye
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The New Librarianship Field Guide
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Good City Form
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Financial Modeling
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Bicycling Science
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Return from the Stars
Dugald C. Dugald C. Dugald C. Dugald C. Dugald C. Dugald C. Dugald At MIT, he is the Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262529624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262529629 |
| Title | Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python |
| Author | John V Guttag |
| Series | The Mit Press |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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