vzhorin / course

Course

This repository contains the material for the Software Engineering for Economists Initiative's course.

We acquire fundamental software engineering skills to tackle computer intensive economic research projects. These basic techniques allow us to leverage tools from computational science, increase the transparency of our implementations, and ensure the recomputability of results. Thus, they expand the set of possible economic questions that we can address and improve the quality of our answers.

Check out the course syllabus for details. A broader perspective about the Software Engineering for Economists Initiative is provided here.

We cordially invite fellow economists to submit lectures about topics they care about. If you are interested in contributing, please do not hesitate to let us know.

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Material

Lectures

Basics

• Introduction
• Python Overview
• Cloud Computing
• Integrated Development Environment
• Object Oriented Programming
• Version Control

Economic Models

• Carrer Choices
• Job Search
• Generalized Roy
  • Notebook
  • Module
  • Distributed
  • Package

Special Topics

• Toolkit for Advanced Optimization

Guest Presentations

Please visit here for supporting material.

04/20/15

Robin Weiss for the Research Computing Center

04/27/15

Steven Mohr for the Social Sciences Computing Services

05/13/15

Victor Zhorin for the Computation Institute