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Learn about functional programming, and how it can be effectively combined with object-oriented programming. Gain practice in writing clean functional code, using the Scala programming language.

What is the Internet? How was it created? How does it work? How do we secure communications on the Internet?

Learn about the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and protocols and how to apply this knowledge in real-world applications.

Why do Primes make some problems fundamentally hard? Build algorithms to find out!. Primality Test. Running Time. Computer Memory (space). Algorithmic Efficiency. Sieve of Eratosthenes. Primality Test with Sieve. The Prime Number Theorem. Time Space Tradeoff. Conditional Probability Visualized.

Behind every mouse click and touch-screen tap, there is a computer program that makes things happen. This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language.

Networked Life will explore recent scientific efforts to explain social, economic and technological structures -- and the way these structures interact -- on many different scales, from the behavior of individuals or small groups to that of complex networks such as the Internet and the global economy.

This course is about building 'web-intelligence' applications exploiting big data sources arising social media, mobile devices and sensors, using new big-data platforms based on the 'map-reduce' parallel programming paradigm. In the past, this course has been offered at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as well as the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi.

Learn about the most effective data analysis methods to solve problems and achieve insight.

Why write programs when the computer can instead learn them from data? In this class you will learn how to make this happen, from the simplest machine learning algorithms to quite sophisticated ones. Enjoy!

For anyone who would like to apply their technical skills to creative work ranging from video games to art installations to interactive music, and also for artists who would like to use programming in their artistic practice.

Learn about how to make mobile robots move in effective, safe, predictable, and collaborative ways using modern control theory.

Have you ever wondered how to build a system that automatically translates between languages? Or a system that can understand natural language instructions from a human? This class will cover the fundamentals of mathematical and computational models of language, and the application of these models to key problems in natural language processing.

In this course you will learn several fundamental principles of advanced algorithm design: greedy algorithms and applications; dynamic programming and applications; NP-completeness and what it means for the algorithm designer; the design and analysis of heuristics; and more.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field that has a long history but is still constantly and actively growing and changing. In this course, you’ll learn the basics of modern AI as well as some of the representative applications of AI. Along the way, we also hope to excite you about the numerous applications and huge possibilities in the field of AI, which continues to expand human capability beyond our imagination. ***Note: Parts of this course are featured in the Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree and the Data Analyst Nanodegree programs. If you are interested in AI, be sure to check out those programs as well!***

Investigate the flexibility and power of project-oriented computational analysis, and enhance communication of information by creating visual representations of scientific data.

Tired of solving Sudokus by hand? This class teaches you how to solve complex search problems with discrete optimization concepts and algorithms, including constraint programming, local search, and mixed-integer programming.

This course covers database design and the use of database management systems for applications.

In this introduction to computer programming course, you’ll learn and practice key computer science concepts by building your own versions of popular web applications. You’ll learn Python, a powerful, easy-to-learn, and widely used programming language, and you’ll explore computer science basics, as you build your own search engine and social network.

The course is an introduction to linear and discrete optimization - an important part of computational mathematics with a wide range of applications in many areas of everyday life.

Khan Academy is collaborating with MIT to develop videos on science and engineering projects. Through the MIT+K12 initiative, MIT students have created videos on hands-on projects, simulations and historic experiments. Enjoy!. Bridge Design and Destruction! (part 1). 2D Equilibrium -- Balancing Games. Shifts in Equilibrium. The Marangoni Effect: How to make a soap propelled boat!. Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons. Earth's Tilt 2: Land of the Midnight Sun. Homeostasis. A Crash Course on Indoor Flying Robots. The Invention of the Battery. The Forces on an Airplane. Flocculation: Making Clean Water. A Voyage to Mars: Bone Loss in Space. Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces. Bread Mold Kills Bacteria.