Here's details from a departmental e-mail from mid-July (likely outdated). ----- Prerequisites: Students should have a good familiarity with any popular prog

Here's details from a departmental e-mail from mid-July (likely outdated). ----- Prerequisites: Students should have a good familiarity with any popular programming language such as Python or R, and ideally have taken or are taking a math class such as 18.02 (multivariable calc). ----- Contents: General-purpose Computing, Data manipulation, abstraction, optimization, machine learning, performance, Random walks, graphs, automatic differentiation, differential equations ----- Format: We plan to experiment each week with * 30 minutes of asynchronous lecture (the story) * Five 6-minute quick video how-tos * 30 minutes of live, engaging lecture with nongraded quiz questions to test understanding * 30+ minutes of break-out sessions, help, questions and answers, or discussion * (Mostly) weekly problem sets * Letter grading typical of the Fall 2020 semester * Freshmen are advised to be aware of credit limits and the process to petition