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1.3 expectations/requirements » quantitative skills and/or programming experience
Prospective Undergraduate Complexity Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute are expected to have quantitative skills and/or programming experience.
Examples of quantitative coursework and familiarity that is expected :
- college-level calculus
- descriptive statistics
- differential equations
Examples of programming languages commonly used at SFI :
- Python
- R
- Mathematica (Wolfram language)
Other programming languages that are good preparation :
- Julia
- C++
- Java/Javascript
- Matlab
UCR applicants should be able to create variables and other data structures, read data, output results to file or command line, perform basic data structure manipulations, install packages, and be comfortable understanding and modifying someone else's code in one of these languages.