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Notebooks:
Lectures: NumEconCopenhagen/ProgEcon-lectures (download)
Exercises: NumEconCopenhagen/ProgEcon-exercises (download)

Lectures: 9:00-11:00 (Chr. Hansen)
Classes: 13:00-16:00

Videos: 

1. The videos linked to here were created for the course Introduction to Programming and Numerical Analysis. 

They are purely extra material.

2. On Absalon there will be raw recordings of the lectures.

Week 1

Lecture 1: Introduction

Videos:

1. Introduction

Exercises 1: 

1. Work on the DataCamp courses

2. Problem set 0: Getting started

   • Follow the installation guide

   • Run some code from the lectures

Lecture 2: Python basics

Videos: 

1. Atomic types

2. Containers

3. Conditions and loops 

4. Functions 

5. Floating point numbers 

Exercises 2: Problem set 0: Getting started + Work on the DataCamp courses

Lecture 3: Classes and Numpy

Videos:

1. Classes

2. Numpy basics

Exercises 3: Problem set 0: Getting started + Work on the DataCamp courses

Lecture 4: Printing and Plotting

Videos: 

1. Print

2. Plot

Exercises 4: Problem set 1. Printing and Plotting

Lecture 5: Optimization and Root-finding

Videos:

1. Optimize

Exercises 5: Problem set 2. Optimization

Week 2

Lecture 6: Random numbers

Videos: 

1. Random numbers basics

2. Random numbers example

3. Random numbers advanced

Exercises 6: Problem set 3. Random Numbers

Lecture 7: Descriptive Economics I

Videos: 

1. Data basics

2. Data: Load, clean, and save

Exercises 7: Problem set 4. Descriptive Economics I

Lecture 8: Descriptive Economics II

Videos:

1. Combining datasets

2. Fetching data

3. Split-apply-combine

Exercises 8: Problem set 5. Descriptive Economics II + Data Project.

Exercises 9:  Data Project

Lecture 9: Solow

Exercises 10: Problem set 6. Solow

Week 3

Lecture 10: Walras

Exercises 11: Problem set 7. Walras

Lecture 11: AS-AD

Exercises 12: Problem set 8. AS-AD + Feedback on Data Project

Lecture 12: Calibration

Exercises 13: Model project + introduction to git

Lecture 13: Dynamic Programming

Lecture 14: Perspectives and Exam

Exercises 14: Model project + exam preparation