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Contents:

  • 1. Motivation and plan
  • 2. Starting out - data files and first plots
  • 3. Intermediate plotting
  • 4. A tour of functions
  • 5. Advanced plotting
  • 6. Fitting functions to data
  • 7. Case studies in data
  • 8. Special numbers: \(\pi\)
  • 9. A workshop on programming by yourself (!)
  • 10. Random number basics
  • 11. Randomness and Disorder
  • 12. Random Processes
  • 13. Power laws, Zipf, Benford, …
  • 14. Pushing toward calculus
  • 15. Numerical integration
  • 16. Differential Equations
  • 17. Ecology
  • 18. Biology – basics of phylogeny
  • 19. Biology – phylogeny with genetic data
  • 20. Recursion
  • 21. Programming topics: sorting
  • 22. Birthday paradox and other simulations
  • 23. Optimal Stopping
  • 24. Graphical user interfaces
  • 25. Drawing on a canvas
  • 26. The Traveling Salesman
  • 27. Basic agent-based modeling
  • 28. Emergent behavior
  • 29. Particle life
  • 30. Web scraping
  • 31. Getting to philosophy
  • 32. Music basics
  • 33. Collecting mp3s
  • 34. Computer art
  • 35. Image filtering
  • 36. Cryptography
  • 37. Other languages - Go
  • 38. Appendix: An itinerary for guest lectures
  • 39. Appendix: How to build the book
  • 40. Appendix: How to add a chapter
  • 41. Appendix: Project proposals
  • 42. Appendix: Proposed chapters
  • 43. Copying and legal matters
  • Glossary
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