[CentralOH] MIT Open Courseware and Python

Mike Schoenborn rtfm at columbus.rr.com
Wed Nov 11 02:30:43 CET 2009


On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 20:14 -0500, Eric Floehr wrote:
> For those learning Python... There are 24 video lectures, with handouts.

For any other pack-rats out there who perfer to download such
presentations for off-line consumption, let me save you 10 minutes of
pointy and clicky URL grabbing: Here's a list of the MIT course content
to chop up and feed to wget or curl.

# Links current as of Nov 10, 2009
#
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/LectureVideos/index.htm

# 1   Goals of the course; what is computation; introduction to data
types, operators, and variables
# 2   Operators and operands; statements; branching, conditionals, and
iteration
# 3   Common code patterns: iterative programs
# 4   Decomposition and abstraction through functions; introduction to
recursion
# 5   Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots
# 6   Bisection methods, Newton/Raphson, introduction to lists
# 7   Lists and mutability, dictionaries, pseudocode, introduction to
efficiency
# 8   Complexity; log, linear, quadratic, exponential algorithms
# 9   Binary search, bubble and selection sorts
# 10  Divide and conquer methods, merge sort, exceptions
# 11  Testing and debugging
# 12  More about debugging, knapsack problem, introduction to dynamic
programming
# 13  Dynamic programming: overlapping subproblems, optimal substructure
# 14  Analysis of knapsack problem, introduction to object-oriented
programming
# 15  Abstract data types, classes and methods
# 16  Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing
# 17  Computational models: random walk simulation
# 18  Presenting simulation results, Pylab, plotting
# 19  Biased random walks, distributions
# 20  Monte Carlo simulations, estimating pi
# 21  Validating simulation results, curve fitting, linear regression
# 22  Normal, uniform, and exponential distributions; misuse of
statistics
# 23  Stock market simulation
# 24  Course overview; what do computer scientists do?

# Videos - Generally 100+MB each.

http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec01_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec02_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec03_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec04_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec05_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec06_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec07_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec08_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec09_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec10_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec11_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec12_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec13_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec14_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec15_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec16_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec17_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec18_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec19_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec20_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec21_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec22_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec23_300k.mp4
http://www.archive.org/download/MIT6.00F08/mit-6-00-f08-lec24_300k.mp4


# Resources - Handouts (no handouts for lecture #1)

http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/A480F462-38B1-49C8-A74A-BA58E04A70F5/0/lec2.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/C5D5F49E-CB49-4DE2-85E7-E821A97E2116/0/lec3.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/262D8F80-0AA9-4100-8D75-CC7673E18DCF/0/lec4.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/21D1F076-E598-499C-8E04-B1EF9F879FC6/0/lec5.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/0A5B6FD8-BB6E-4054-A513-BC8D694D9AD4/0/lec6.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/60A4B3EF-57EB-4D56-949F-880F77E74F63/0/lec7.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/125511D7-E06A-4D45-9596-5733AFC354A5/0/lec8.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/5D18F875-D7AE-4E9F-BE7D-4AA530ABF2D3/0/lec9.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/C0BCC687-8895-4D34-8F3D-7E556D2FEE81/0/lec10.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/1D3414AC-AA5F-4E76-8D7C-CFCBEC37313F/0/lec11.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/AB899716-0C88-49C2-88A0-4940AA9D2D06/0/lec12.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/8649CB15-EE82-444B-8DEA-BFBD51929440/0/lec13.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/F36C395F-F0E5-4844-A258-38F1FC931C2D/0/lec14.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/A943B22E-C41A-4B69-BA69-28692AEA8A18/0/lec15.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/E4B35D9A-29E1-47A3-97A1-262A5B802FDF/0/lec16.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/D0A277D1-4B89-45F9-9129-A3DD016EC2CF/0/lec17.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/9404574A-905E-4250-9041-E7CF54614173/0/lec18.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/326EEEFE-EBB0-4267-B843-C9F9B6EF9862/0/lec19.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/4BBD8904-A01A-4ED0-818B-DAFE75320DC9/0/lec20.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/D8DA2FDD-4E16-479E-8230-CCA05752AE5E/0/lec21.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/CC03C066-29D1-4A40-A7E5-D12265D7F6A8/0/lec22.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/96F42CB8-8BAA-44D6-AF75-A7451D75C3A5/0/lec23.pdf
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/AF6AB843-A647-4723-8F6D-09E69D9A80F1/0/lec24.pdf





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