New introductory(ish) Julia class with materials available

dpsanders · October 24, 2019, 1:45am

Together with Alan Edelman, we have just started teaching a new half-semester introductory class on “Computational Thinking” using Julia at MIT (course number 6.S083).
It is during the second half of the semester, as an alternative to a similar Python course.

Lecture slides and a link to screen/audio captures (unedited) are available at
https://github.com/dpsanders/6.S083

There is frequent reference to Python and the previous intro Python half-class, which has the number 6.0001.

I hope these materials prove useful to anyone looking for a somewhat fast-paced introduction to Julia, aimed at people with basic programming knowledge, although of course they are far from perfect.

Comments and corrections are gladly received, especially via Pull Request!

PetrKryslUCSD · October 24, 2019, 5:38am

Just a quick note: the delay when setting y = sin(x) – I doubt that Julia is compiling it and therefore it takes a sizable fraction of a second or more to show (in my case 10 seconds!). I think this is due to the slowness of Atom. I just gave a tutorial and time delay of this sort caused quite a bit of consternation, with one student commenting that a hand calculator would have been faster.

akshu3398 · April 19, 2020, 7:49am

where is the discussion form for this course

I’ve few questions regarding homework problems.

dpsanders · April 19, 2020, 8:31am

Unfortunately it’s not publicly available.

akshu3398 · April 19, 2020, 8:42am

that’s sad . It’s the best course that i’ve found to learn julia(via practical applications) and now i can’t talk/discuss anything about it.
Although i couldn’t submit psets, i even completed all the homework problems in time(on my own, until i got stuck in homework 2 and lecture 4) and followed it through the course calendar.

thanks for the help ,
now i guess i’ll just have to google my query regarding homework problem…

dpsanders · April 19, 2020, 2:53pm

Yes sorry about that. It’s possible there will be a public version in the future.

For moment I suggest you ask questions here as long as they are not about the current problem set.

Ratingulate · April 19, 2020, 3:46pm

Would be cool to turn this into an mit edx class.

dpsanders · April 19, 2020, 4:03pm

Yes that is the hope (“plan” is too strong a word at this point).

nilshg · April 20, 2020, 8:25am

Will more video lectures be posted here or is the rest non-public as well?

dpsanders · April 20, 2020, 3:18pm

Only the discussion forum is not publicly available.
All other materials are being linked from

github.com

mitmath/6S083/blob/master/syllabus.md

<h1> Computational thinking with Julia  </h1>
<h2>  Applications to the COVID-19 pandemic </h2>
<h3> Syllabus and schedule for 6.S083 / 18.S190 (Spring 2020) </h3>

||Homeworks|Resources|
|--|--|--|
|HW1 |  <ul> <li>[Analyzing Covid-19 Data (md)][md:hw1]</li>  <li>[Analyzing Covid-19 Data (pdf)][pdf:hw1] </li> </ul>|<ul><li>[Covid-19 Trajectory](https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/) </li></ul>|
|HW2 |  <ul> <li>[ Probability and modelling recovery (md)][md:hw2]</li>  <li>[Probability and modelling recovery (pdf)][pdf:hw2] </li> </ul>||
|HW3 |  <ul> <li>[Simple epidemic model (md)][md:hw3]</li>  <li>[Simple epidemic model (pdf)][pdf:hw3] </li> </ul>||
|HW4 |  <ul> <li>[Spatial epidemic model (md)][md:hw4]</li>  <li>[Spatial epidemic model (pdf)][pdf:hw4] </li> </ul>||
|HW5 |  <ul> <li>[Scientific Machine Learning (md)][md:hw5]</li>  <li>[Scientific Machine Learning (pdf)][pdf:hw5] </li> </ul>| Due NEXT Tuesday May 12|


[md:hw1]:https://github.com/mitmath/6S083/blob/master/problem_sets/PS1.md
[md:hw2]:https://github.com/mitmath/6S083/blob/master/problem_sets/PS2.md
[md:hw3]:https://github.com/mitmath/6S083/blob/master/problem_sets/PS3.md
[md:hw4]:https://github.com/mitmath/6S083/blob/master/problem_sets/PS4.md
[md:hw5]:https://github.com/mitmath/6S083/blob/master/problem_sets/PS5.md

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nilshg · April 20, 2020, 3:19pm

Oh wow turns out there was no break and I’ve got a bit to catch up on

dpsanders · April 20, 2020, 3:21pm

Sorry about the confusion!

nilshg · April 20, 2020, 3:22pm

Not at all, my fault for just randomly clicking a link I saw somewhere and only ever refreshing the page I posted above rather than checking out where the course materials actually are!