Calculus

Projects about computation, visualization, geometry, and data.

Calculus gives us ways to describe change, accumulation, and the shape of functions. The projects below turn these ideas into things that can be computed, drawn, and tested.

About this subject

Read what calculus is about, what students learn, why it is useful, and how I taught it through questions, programming, and projects.

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01

Making a Calculator

Compute basic functions using arithmetic operations.

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3D Graphing

Draw the surface defined by a two-variable function.

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Making CAPTCHA

Create and transform a CAPTCHA image.

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Area of a Polygon

Compute the area of a polygon.

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Length of a Curve

Compute the length of curves.

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MNIST Data

Build a neural-network model from scratch.

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