6.0002 | Fall 2016 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science

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Lecture 1: Introduction and Optimization Problems

Description: Prof. Guttag provides an overview of the course and discusses how we use computational models to understand the world in which we live, in particular he discusses the knapsack problem and greedy algoriths.

Instructor: John Guttag

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