ORIE 6125: Computational Methods in Operations Research

Contents:

• Syllabus
  • Topics
  • Programming languages
• Assignments
  • Assignment 1
  • Assignment 2
• Final project
  • Goals
  • What to turn in
• *nix
  • Shell
  • Terminal
  • Getting started
  • Navigation
  • Running a program
  • Managing files
  • Input/output redirection
  • Getting help
• Version control
  • General terminology
  • Centralized version control systems
  • Distributed version control systems
  • Workflows
• Build systems
  • Motivation
  • Automating common tasks
  • Make
  • SCons
• Test Driven Development
  • Introduction
  • Unit tests
  • Regression Tests
  • Test Coverage
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Benchmark tests
• Debugging
  • printf-style debugging
  • Using a debugger
• IEEE 754
  • Rounding error
  • Overflow and underflow
  • Catastrophic cancellation
• Computer architecture
  • Memory hierarchy
  • Cache efficiency
  • Binary and hexadecimal
  • CPU
• Web Applications
  • REST
  • RESTful APIs
  • Example App
• Heroku crash course
  • Registration
  • Downloading the toolbelt
  • Log in
  • Initialize the application locally
  • Deploy
  • Visit the application
• Databases
  • Relational databases
• Data structures
  • Binary trees
  • Binary heap
  • Union find
• Algorithms
  • Merge sort
  • Reservoir sampling
• Functional Programming
  • Eager languages
  • Lazy languages
  • Purely functional languages
  • Haskell
• Making Python Fast
  • Faster libraries: Numpy
  • Writing some code in C(++)
  • Brief note on Python
  • First-class extensions
  • Using the ctypes module

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• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page