ORIE 6125 (Spring 2017): Computational Methods in Operations Research

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All scheduled lectures, office hours and due dates for assignments and projects will be updated on the Course Google Calendar.

Contents

• Syllabus
  • Topics
  • Programming languages
  • Course Structure
• Assignments
  • Assignment 0
  • Assignment 1
  • Project proposal
  • Assignment 2
• Final project
  • Goals
  • Semester Checkpoints
  • What to turn in
  • Past Projects
• *nix
  • Shell
  • Terminal
  • Getting started
  • Navigation
  • Running a program
  • Managing files
  • Managing running processes
  • Input/output redirection
  • Getting help
• Version control
  • Why version control?
  • Part I: Working locally
  • See the directed graph for yourself
  • Part II: Working with remotes
  • Workflows
  • Terminology summary
• 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
  • Infinity
  • NaN
  • Rounding error
  • Overflow and underflow
  • Numerical analysis
  • Catastrophic cancellation
• Computer architecture
  • Memory hierarchy
  • Cache efficiency
  • Binary and hexadecimal
  • CPU
• Algorithms
  • Complexity analysis
  • Selected algorithms
• Data structures
  • Prevalent data structures
• 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
  • Object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Working remotely
  • Secure Shell (SSH)
  • Securely transfering files
  • SSH keys
• Project documentation and structure
  • Documentation generators
  • Project structure
  • Documentation build systems
• Random Number Generators
  • Pseudorandom number generators
  • Coding structure
  • Random (sub)streams
  • Parallel computing
• 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

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page