cam a22 4500 569199530 CHVBK 20201023122145.0 190722s2016 xxu 000 0 eng d 0-262-52962-9 978-0-262-52962-4 (RERO)R008947113 NETUE dut RERO geuise s1in rero Guttag John (IDREF)030073936 aut Introduction to computing and programming using Python with application to understanding data John V. Guttag Second edition. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2016 XV, 447 p. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques, including some of the tools and techniques of "data science" for using computation to model and interpret data. The book is based on an MIT course (which became the most popular course offered through MIT's OpenCourseWare) and was developed for use not only in a conventional classroom but in a massive open online course (or MOOC) offered by the pioneering MIT-Harvard collaboration edX. Students are introduced to Python and the basics of programming in the context of such computational concepts and techniques as exhaustive enumeration, bisection search, and efficient approximation algorithms. The book does not require knowledge of mathematics beyond high school algebra, but does assume that readers are comfortable with rigorous thinking and not intimidated by mathematical concepts. Although it covers such traditional topics as computational complexity and simple algorithms, the book focuses on a wide range of topics not found in most introductory texts, including information visualization, simulations to model randomness, computational techniques to understand data, and statistical techniques that inform (and misinform) as well as two related but relatively advanced topics: optimization problems and dynamic programming Python (langage de programmation) (RERO)A021070314 rero Programmation (RERO)A021028018 rero Informatique (RERO)A021001890 rero Manuels d'enseignement supérieur (RERO)A021035909 rero BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 RERO RE61080 RE61080 RE610800001 519 GUT Ed. 2 RERO 100 1- Guttag John (IDREF)030073936 aut SWISSBIB 035947845