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Future Wolfram U courses you would like to see?

Recently, I took two of the new interactive Wolfram U courses: Introduction to Calculus (https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/introduction-to-calculus/) and Multiparadigm Data Science (https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/multiparadigm-data-science/).
They work quite well for me, with Cloud notebooks to take notes on and run code, shorter videos, many hands-on exercises and even a certificate to earn (who doesn't love some micro-credentials?). Now, I enjoyed the format and would love to see some different content, as I'm sure many of you would. What topics would you like to see?
Personally, I would love some more intermediate Wolfram Language skills courses. Such as a short Function-writing course, that goes into stuff like how to set options, how to set error messages etc.
I thought this might be a fun place to gather more ideas. Looking forward to reading yours in the comments.

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Being lazy here and not searching for existing courses already, I suggests data analysis or introduction in Statistics (such as probabilities and distributions). Both will look great and will be informative with Wolfram language. I will start teaching them soon in first and second level of BSC, so if they are not here, I will create them myself :) I love the certificates and exercises idea.

POSTED BY: Ahmed Elbanna

There is a data science course, but it doesn't cover a ton of statistics. (https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/multiparadigm-data-science/ .
I'm sure your courses will be amazing.

Posted 6 years ago

Complexity Science seems to be advancing frontiers in many conventional subjects. For example, network (graphs) have become important tools in chemistry, biology and sociology to name a few. Ergodic theory, Tsallis entropy and non-Gaussian statistics seem just as important. While it may be difficult to develop a curriculum, Thurner's recent text, Complexity of Complex Systems, might provide a starting point.

A second suggestion related to the "physics" idea Carl mentioned... Squigglology. That's what I call the study of how to interpret and repurpose a variety of notations found in physics texts. Wolfram Language treats many of these cogently, once you 'break the code'. Tensor notation is a difficult but notable example.

POSTED BY: David Barnes
Posted 6 years ago

“Using the new Wolfram Compiler”

“Geometric capabilities of the Wolfram Language””

POSTED BY: Erik Mahieu
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson
Posted 6 years ago

I would really love to see some more maths-related courses. I really love the Calculus course, because I don't use Wolfram Language much for maths and my knowledge of the area is pretty limited. It would be cool to see more like that - maybe some physics as well!

POSTED BY: Carl Lange

Oh yes, they should have the (Linear) Algebra equivalent of the calculus course as the college freshman classic duo :D
I use this quite a bit to look up some of the more mathy stuff: https://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-math-students/en/

An intermediate/advanced course in The FrontEnd.

POSTED BY: Seth Chandler

Hi Katja, thanks for the message. Here are two suggestions: Developing GUIs in Mathematica and Engineering Mathematics

I love the GUI idea. There are some lecture-style resources on it (https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/catalog/edu004/) but there's definitely a lot to learn in that area that's really useful.

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