That's Random! Or Is It?
- Interactive Course
- 4 h 45 min
- Beginner
- 1 Certification
From selecting lottery numbers to testing new medicines, making sure something is truly random is important business. In this CBM 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.
Course Overview
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.
Featured Products & Technologies: Wolfram Language (available in Mathematica and Wolfram|One)
You'll Learn To
- Understand what makes something random and how to generate random outcomes
- Investigate randomness in a number of contexts, including noises, images and shapes
- Explore the relevance of scale when determining randomness
- Understand the importance of why computers need to generate random data
- Generate random data using the Wolfram Language
New! AI Course Assistant is Included in this Course
This self-study resource is part of the Computer-Based Maths (CBM) project and works in the Wolfram Cloud. It's free and easy to get started using the Wolfram Cloud—sign in with your Wolfram ID or create one. No plan is required. This interactive course includes video lessons, computational activities, auto-graded questions and a project.
Certifications Available
Completion Certificate
Certify your completion of this computational thinking module by successfully completing activities and answering the questions in each chapter.
