Computational Thinking: Explore Quantitative Concepts by Coding in Python

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)

Course Description
This course will introduce students to the Central Limit Theorem and its applications to express solutions to the complex problems in a form of an algorithm that could be executed by a computer. Participants of this course will be able to see contextual examples of using coding. After learning the basics of Python programming language, students are introduced to a number of fundamental concepts in statistics (mean, standard deviation), finance (return on investment, discounted cash flow method) and economics (supply/demand, elasticity) represented in Python code. Students will learn how to harness the power of computers to solve the real world in a wide variety of professional disciplines, where one subject is coding and the other subject could be engineering, finance, economics, biology, chemistry, etc.Participants of this course should be familiar with the notions of distributions, population, sample, mean, standard deviation, and variance.
Grades: 9-11
Time: 10:00am EST (New York Time)
Category: STEM
Instructor: George Balayan

George Balayan

George Balayan

MBA - Software Engineer and instructor for UC Berkeley Extension

George has over 11 years of experience in software development. He has taught cars how to drive themselves for over three years. Prior to that, George Balayan built financial trading systems at Bloomberg in New York City and worked for Uber Advance Technology Group as a software engineer implementing data for machine learning pipelines. Balayan has taught a class of about 30 students at Berkeley Data Analytics Bootcamp for 6 months; Wing (a subsidiary of Alphabet) and Amazon are among employers who recruited the graduates of the bootcamp class. George earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow) and an MBA from Hult International Business School (San Francisco).

“I would like to thank Eduexplora for giving me the opportunity to participate in this program. I have done, learned and experienced things I never thought I would. It was an amazing experience, and I am so thankful for being able to participate.”

Enzo DeSá - Peru

Program Calendar:
July 19-30, 2021
(Monday – Friday)
Real-Time Classes Duration:
1 hour & 45 minutes long
(with a 15-minute break)
Max Class Group:
Small class size
(20 students max)

Grades 9-11

For grade 9 students all course options are available.



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