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Boot Camp is open to all BYU students who have the necessary background including core courses in economics and mathematics. Experience with an object-oriented programming language is strong recommended, but not a strict requirement. Students take six credit hours of courses, three in mathematics and three in economics. Lectures are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon. Computations Labs are held on Tuesday and Thursday during the same time period.
Students use [[Python_(programming_language)|Python]] as their primary programming language, but [[MATLAB]], Dynare <ref> [http://www.dynare.org/ Dynare website] </ref> and [[Mathematica]] are also used for some economic applications.
Mathematical topics covered include: inner product spaces, spectral theory, convex analysis, constrained and unconstrained linear and nonlinear optimization and dynamic programming.
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