The focus of this course is on problem solving and the design of logical and efficient programming solutions. It is an applied course with an emphasis on software construction using basic algorithmic ...

Hacking for Social Sciences - An Applied Guide to Programming with Data The core concept of the course (and its answer to distance learning) is to mimic an open source software community. Open source ...

Martin Goetz, who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received the first US patent for software, died earlier ...

In this paper we develop a discretized version of the dynamic programming algorithm and study its convergence and stability properties. We show that the computed value function converges quadratically ...