Programming experience and mathematical sophistication are essential for this course.

这门课最好必须具备写程序经验及精于数学运算。

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That's, there are whole courses on that, there's some great courses here on that, it takes some mathematical sophistication, we're going to push that off a little bit.

有一些课程是专门讲这个的，那些课一般都涉及，一些复杂的数学问题，我们只是简单的讲一些基础知识。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选