# Course: Introduction to computational thinking + applications to modelling the COVID-19 pandemic

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**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/course-introduction-to-computational-thinking-applications-to-modelling-the-covid-19-pandemic/36776 "2020-03-31T02:39:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/course-introduction-to-computational-thinking-applications-to-modelling-the-covid-19-pandemic/36776/1 "2020-03-31T02:39:51Z")

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Together with Alan Edelman, we are teaching an MIT course on **Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia, with applications to modelling the COVID-19 pandemic** :

> **[GitHub - mitmath/6S083: Materials for MIT 6.S083 / 18.S190: Computational...](https://github.com/mitmath/6S083)**
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> Materials for MIT 6.S083 / 18.S190: Computational thinking with Julia + application to the COVID-19 pandemic - GitHub - mitmath/6S083: Materials for MIT 6.S083 / 18.S190: Computational thinking wit...

It’s designed for people with basic programming experience and teaches Julia from scratch by directly applying it to epidemic modelling. We will cover the basics of individual-based and differential equation modelling during the 12 lectures.

Note, however, that we are computational mathematicians, not epidemiologists. Advice from more knowledgeable members of the community is greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/course-introduction-to-computational-thinking-applications-to-modelling-the-covid-19-pandemic/36776/2 "2020-03-31T07:36:41Z")

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I don’t know if it helps you, but we have done a lot of work in Agents.jl to allow creating models for covid:

[https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/dev/examples/sir/](https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/dev/examples/sir/)

[https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/dev/examples/social\_distancing/](https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/dev/examples/social_distancing/)

Unfortunately, the second example with continuous space and social distancing is only available on master. We are working on a big release of Agents.jl 3.0, but we need about a month more time.