To students who intend to enroll this course:

Your request to enroll this class will usually be granted. However, programming is an essential part for homework problems and the final project. If you do not have any programming experience, you may encounter difficulty to meet the course requirements. It is your choice to use whatever programming environment or language to perform the tasks. Nevertheless, for certain problems such as working with data in special formats, the choice of programming language and environment may be limited.