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Explore the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

Learn how to use Wolfram Language to predict when the eclipse will happen and how it will look from any location on April 8, 2024. Compute contact times, duration, speed, the maximum obscuration of the Sun and much more. Construct precise and detailed maps of the sky for the event, as well as maps of the Earth showing the totality path. Wolfram experts will show the calculations behind the Precision Eclipse website and demonstrate the astro capabilities and built-in knowledge of Wolfram Language that support those results.

Exploring Wolfram|Alpha Mobile & Tablet Apps

Video Lesson | FREE

In this video class, you will see how Wolfram|Alpha mobile apps give you access to the world of computable knowledge wherever you go. You will be introduced to the key features of the Wolfram|Alpha mobile app and will get a glimpse of the extensive reference data and computational power available in the Wolfram|Alpha-powered Reference Apps, Professional Assistant Apps and Personal Assistant Apps.

Hands-on Start to Mathematica

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn the basics of Mathematica and get started using it in your day-to-day work. This video will show you how to create and organize content in your notebook, use free-form input and Wolfram Language to enter calculations and generate graphics, define your own variables, create interactive models and modify examples in the live documentation. Topics are based on content from the book Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica and Programming with the Wolfram Language, which is available in paperback and on Kindle. This video class requires no prior experience with Mathematica or Wolfram Language.

Hands-on Start to Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn the basics of using Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition—use free-form input to enter math and science calculations, create interactive notebooks, calculate problems numerically or symbolically and see step-by-step solutions, assign variables and define functions, create 2D and 3D graphics and make them interactive, and turn your notebook into a dynamic presentation. Topics are based on content from the book Hands-on Start to Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition. Explore these topics in more detail with the free online Hands-on Start to Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition training tutorials. This content requires no prior experience with Wolfram Notebooks or Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition.

Hour of Code with Wolfram

Archived Event | FREE

Wolfram U is hosting an Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week. Invite someone you would like to introduce to the world of computation and AI and join Wolfram U instructors online for an hour of coding. No experience needed. We'll work together on a fun and guided exploration, using simple but powerful Wolfram Language functions. End the hour knowing you can use Wolfram Language creatively with AI to add a computational perspective to any topic.

How Happy Are People in My Country?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires knowledge of common data visualisations (bar chart) and statistics (mean, median), as well as very basic spreadsheet skills.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Happiness, like many other subjective measures, is difficult to define. But with careful assumptions, many governments and businesses can analyse subjective data and use it to improve future growth or the lives of their citizens. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn how the assumptions are made and how data scientists analyse reliable sources of data, ultimately finding a measure of how happy people are in your country.

Introduction to Electric Circuits

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires high-school level physics, algebra and basic calculus.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Explore the fundamentals of electric circuits in this interactive course using Wolfram Language and Wolfram System Modeler. User-friendly diagrams, visualizations and models intuitively demonstrate how electric circuits behave. The course covers circuit components, basic theoretical concepts and methods for analysis. The final section of the course focuses on operational amplifiers.

Introduction to Elementary Algebra

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Mathematica or Wolfram Language. Prerequisites for learning algebra are understanding basic math skills and fluency with basic math operations.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Elementary algebra is a prerequisite for multiple mathematics and statistics courses, and a strong foundation in algebra can help you better understand more advanced math. This course introduces the basic concepts of algebra as well as common types of problems and how to solve them. Start with algebraic definitions and then move on to linear equations, linear inequalities, polynomials and quadratic equations. The instructor also discusses word problem examples in each section and walks through the steps to finding a solution.

Introduction to Linear Algebra

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Mathematica or the Wolfram Language. Prerequisites for linear algebra include algebra, elementary geometry and trigonometry.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Get a comprehensive introduction to fundamental concepts in linear algebra with these video lessons and interactive notebooks. Follow along with the examples in the Wolfram Cloud and use the material to prepare for courses in data science, engineering and other fields. The course starts with linear equations and matrices, followed by determinants and eigenvalues, and then moves on to inner products and the singular value decomposition. Application sessions are included to show uses of linear algebra in the real world. Exercises and quizzes are provided for self-paced assessment.

Introduction to Mathematica for Students and Teachers

Video Course | FREE

Certification Levels: Level 1

This video course provides an introduction to Mathematica for students, teachers and beginners of all kinds. It quickly covers a wide range of topics from algebra to calculus using examples, all delivered from the viewpoint of a highly skilled and experienced classroom teacher. It starts with the concept of a computational notebook and builds step by step to more advanced topics such as plotting, graphics and solving equations. The course includes techniques for entering mathematical notation using your keyboard and palette buttons and finding help using the Wolfram Documentation Center. The course is recorded by Ruth Dover, a math instructor and Wolfram Innovator who has taught thousands of students how to use Mathematica and Wolfram Language over the course of her career.

Introduction to Notebooks

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Mathematica or the Wolfram Language.

Certification Levels: Completion

Wolfram Notebooks have been widely adopted as the modern environment for technical workflows. In this course, you will be introduced to these powerful and interactive documents for computation, programming, generating reports and creating presentations. Learn how to style notebooks and create interactive interfaces using built-in Wolfram Language functionality. Generate immediate results with the natural language queries and reach your audience on multiple platforms with universal deployment options.

Learn to Use a Notebook in the Wolfram Cloud

Video Lesson | FREE

Watch this short video to learn how you can use Wolfram Notebooks in the cloud within your web browser.

Learn to Use a Notebook on Your Desktop

Video Lesson | FREE

Watch this short video to learn how you can use Wolfram Notebooks on your desktop.

Learn to Use a Notebook with Natural Language Input

Video Lesson | FREE

Natural language processing means communicating with computers with the same words and syntax you would use in everyday, conversational speaking; specific programming syntax is not required. This video shows you how to quickly get started coding in the Wolfram Language by using natural language input.

Mathematica for the Calculus Classroom

Video Lesson | FREE

Mathematica is the educational software standard for the first-year calculus classroom, allowing students to visualize concepts and develop skills essential for other STEM classes. This video demonstrates easy ways to integrate interactive activities, visualizations and other teaching tools into first-year calculus lessons with the use of Wolfram technologies. Learn how natural language input, a predictive interface and point-and-click palettes allow students to begin using Mathematica and the Wolfram Language without learning syntax.

Notebook Presentations Using Presenter Tools

Video Lesson | FREE

Wolfram Presenter Tools seamlessly extends your notebook workflow for easy creation and delivery of dynamic presentations and slide shows. In addition to new UI elements—including a theme chooser, a quick-editing toolbar and popout palettes for notes and navigation—Presenter Tools provides new screen environments with responsive content scaling. This video demonstrates how to create and customize your presentations using these new notebook features.

Problem Solving for Competitive Math

Video Lesson | FREE

In this video, learn about the principles used to solve typical problems from competitive math programs as well as the tools and functions available in Wolfram Language. Explore sample problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) and Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) programs.

Protein Visualization in Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

In this video, you will explore examples of 2D and 3D visualizations in chemistry and biology, as well as use computation to understand the structural and functional biology of biomolecules.

That's Random! Or Is It?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: No particular prior knowledge of randomness is required. Knowing how to interpret a bar chart and understanding the terms integer, 2D and 3D would be beneficial.

Certification Levels: Completion

From selecting lottery numbers to testing new medicines, making sure something is truly random is important business. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn how to recognise randomness, understand what makes something truly random and see how sample size can affect your opinion of randomness. You will explore what random noises, images and shapes look like before going on to generate your own. By learning how to use code to generate these random outputs, you will learn about pseudorandomness—computers’ attempt at true randomness.

Using Real-World Data in the Classroom

Video Lesson | FREE

This course demonstrates how the Wolfram Language's built-in curated Knowledgebase can be used to bring real-world data, computation and visualization into the classroom for exploration and learning. Examples are given from a sampling of the thousands of represented domains, including chemistry, geography, weather and word data.

Wolfram Language for Geosciences

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn how to access built-in geographic data in the Wolfram Knowledgebase. Work with, plot and map data from both the Knowledgebase and external sources.

Wolfram Language for Life Sciences & Medicine

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn how to use Wolfram Language to access built-in data and visualizations of medical and genomic data. Build simple machine learning models to process medical data and images.

Wolfram Notebooks for Chemistry Research

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn about computational tools for analytical, biochemical, physical, organic and inorganic chemistry. This talk explains how to access curated chemical data, create molecule objects and visualize and compute with molecular structures.

Wolfram Notebooks for Teaching Chemistry

Video Lesson | FREE

Teaching chemistry in person and in hybrid and remote learning spaces remains challenging and nontrivial for educators at all levels. Access to reliable chemical data, molecular visualization and student computer literacy are just a few of the issues educators face. This video lesson discusses strategies and resources for meaningful interactive instruction and provides example electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN). Prior experience with Wolfram Notebooks is not required.