We give a brief introduction to the course.

We introduce flowcharts as a way to organize a procedure designed to solve a particular problem.

We introduce some mathematical notation to help us create algorithms to solve mathematical problems.

Using Python for basic computations.

We give a brief discussion on the use of variables.

We introduce if/else statements in Python.

We give a brief discussion on the use of functions.

We give a brief discussion on lists, indexing, slicing, and strings.

We give an introduction to for and while loops.

We provide a brief video that shows how CoCalc may be used.

We introduce some compound interest problems as an application.

We introduce recursion and recursively defined functions.

We give an introduction to list comprehensions and NumPy arrays.

We give an introduction to plotting using Matplotlib.

We give an introduction to finding roots using the Bisection Method.

We give an introduction to finding roots using Newton’s Method.

We give an introduction to Monte Carlo simulations using NumPy.

We give an introduction to dynamic programming techniques via examples.

We provide a brief instroduction to discrete models.