How to Study for This Course

• The prime objective should be to learn, not to get a good grade. However, it is understood that a grade assesses what you have learned.
• Make sure that you understand the lecture notes and the important parts of the notebooks. I am highlighting what I think is important.
• The lecture notes contain mostly explanation and the notebooks contain mostly illustration.
• Read the corresponding chapters in the textbook to provide a different perspective and more detail.
• Make sure that you have a good grasp of the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Monte Carlo. Strengthen your probability & statistics and your numerical computations to a reasonable level.
• Dig in more to the subjects that especially interest you.
• Make sure that you understand how the assignments are done, even if you have received help from partners or an artificial intelligence.
• Interrupt lecture and ask questions. Others quite likely have the same questions.
• Look at old tests to understand how I like to pose questions, but recognize that the course material changes with time.
• Get together with classmates and quiz each other. Thinking up your own questions is a great way to solidify your understanding.