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Day 01
- Day 1 In-Class Assignment: Introductions and Sorting Algorithms
Day 02
Day 03
- Day 3: Pre-Class Assignment: Lists and Loops
- Day 3 In-class Assignment: The power of compound interest
Day 04
- Day 4: Pre-class Assignment: Boolean logic, if statements, and an introduction to functions
- Day 4 In-class Assignment: Savings for Everyone
Day 05
- Day 5: Pre-class Assignment: Thinking more about functions
- Day 5 In-class Assignment: Practicing with functions (for profit!)
Day 06
- Day 6 Pre-Class Assignment: Python Modules: Numpy and Plots
- Day 6 In-class assignment: Visualizing population growth
Day 07
Day 08
- Day 8 Pre-class Assignment: Introduction to Modeling with Ordinary Differential Equations
- Day 8: In-class Assignment: Introduction to Modeling with ODEs
Day 09
- Day 9: Pre-class Assignment: Modeling with Ordinary Differential Equations
- Day 9: In-class Assignment: Modeling with ODEs
Day 10
- Day 10 Pre-Class: Viral Kinetics
Day 11
- Day 11 Pre-class Assignment: ZOMBIES!!
- Day 11 In-Class Assignment: Compartmental Modeling, moving from the model to the code
Day 12
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Day 14
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
- Day 18 Pre-class: Agent-based models and forest fires
- Day 18 In-class Assignment: Modeling forest fires with an Agent-based Model (Part 1)
Day 19
- Day 19 Pre-class: More practice manipulating 2D Numpy Arrays
- Day 19: In-class Assignment: Modeling forest fires with an Agent-based Model (Part 2)
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
- Day 22 Pre-Class Assignment: Random Numbers
- Day 22 In-class Assignment: Random Walks
Day 24
- Day 24 Pre-class: Project Draft Presentation Preparation
- Day 24 In-class Assignment: Project Work Day
Day 23
Day 25
- Day 25: Pre-class assignment: Revisiting what it means for a model to “fit” the data
- Day 25: In-Class: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Parameter Estimation

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By the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University