All Classes and Courses

An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Mathematica or Wolfram Language.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Learn Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking from Stephen Wolfram's book with veteran Wolfram Language instructor and developer David Withoff. The course requires no prior programming knowledge and is suitable for those at any educational level with an interest in computational thinking and its practical applications.

Computational Xplorations

Instructor Led | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Wolfram Language or Mathematica.

Certification Levels: Completion

Discover how to interactively explore nearly any field using computation. See how computational thinking—a modern blend of critical analysis and information processing—can be applied to almost any field, from cartography to machine learning–powered 3D facial reconstruction. You'll learn practical ways to use knowledge-based programming workflows in your classroom, research project or company. This class introduces innovative methods for discovering ideas and insights using the computational intelligence of Wolfram Language, the user-friendly coding environment of Wolfram Notebooks and the curated real-world knowledge of the Wolfram Knowledgebase.

Mastering Manipulates and Palettes for Easy User Interfaces

Video Course | FREE

Wolfram Language offers a rich environment with a variety of built-in tools for building and automating dynamic and interactive interfaces. You can easily deploy and share apps, notebooks, palettes and other interfaces within Wolfram Notebooks or on the Wolfram Cloud.

Principles for Building Dynamic User Interfaces

Video Lesson | FREE

This video discusses the nuances of how to use Dynamic, one of the most basic functions for building responsive and maintainable interfaces. The main focus is on four key principles for designing and developing interfaces.

Using LSP to Develop Wolfram Language Code in Text Editors and IDEs

Video Lesson | FREE

The official Sublime Text package and VS Code extension make it easier to write Wolfram Language in those environments with text coloring and semantic highlighting. The video begins with a brief explanation of how Language Server Protocol (LSP) was used to create the add-ons for other text editors. The video then walks you through the features of the packages that make it easier to write and organize code.

Wolfram Data Science Boot Camp

Special Event | See Page for Details

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1Level 2

Learn how to leverage the capabilities of Wolfram Language to deliver world-class data science results in this two-week online boot camp. Interact with experts on machine learning, generative AI, dynamic visualization, automated reporting and notebook-based interactive workflows.

Daily Study Group: Getting Started with Mathematica and Wolfram Language

Special Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Completion

Learn to use Mathematica and the programming language at its core—Wolfram Language. Start with basic explorations to get familiar with the syntax and then learn to use Wolfram GPT as a guide for writing snippets of code. Find your way through the documentation on 6000+ built-in functions and learn to use them for a range of programming tasks. You will learn to write your own functions, create visualizations, add interactivity and utilize the notebook interface to both create and present your analysis. No prior programming knowledge is required, and even seasoned users will pick up a useful trick or two.

Data Visualization Quick Start

Video Lesson | FREE

Harness the power of the Wolfram Language to interactively visualize your data. Start with simple charts, add labels and legends and then customize the appearance. In a series of examples, you'll learn to process and incorporate additional data and create specialized visual elements, resulting in a rich interface that allows you to interactively explore your data in depth. Topics include general options for adding styles and labels to your charts, enhancing your data with wrappers and metadata and writing custom rendering functions that make use of the metadata to show additional levels of information. The class is suitable for those who have an interest in creating charts using the Wolfram Language but who have little experience with the system.

Introduction to Machine Learning (Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Join our Daily Study Group to review the first six chapters of Etienne Bernard's book, Introduction to Machine Learning. A Wolfram U instructor guides each session by summarizing the chapter, walking through code examples, polling the group to review key concepts, working on selected exercises and answering questions. Participants are encouraged to read the book chapters before coming to each session.

Introduction to System Modeling with Wolfram Language

Video Course | FREE

This four-part video course shows how to locate, import and build models for simulating and analyzing all kinds of systems with Wolfram Language. Basic familiarity with the Wolfram Language is recommended.

Learn to Use a Notebook in the Wolfram Cloud

Video Lesson | FREE

Watch this short video to learn how you can use Wolfram Notebooks in the cloud within your web browser.

Learn to Use a Notebook on Your Desktop

Video Lesson | FREE

Watch this short video to learn how you can use Wolfram Notebooks on your desktop.

LLM Agents for Modeling Group Dynamics

Archived Event | FREE

In this colloquium, you will see agent-based simulations applied to the study of many kinds of groups, from classrooms to international relations. You will also see some general frameworks for creating LLM-based agents. Works presented in this colloquium are conducted in a variety of programming languages, any of which are compatible with Wolfram Notebooks.

Paclet Development

Video Course | FREE

In this video course, learn the basics of developing paclets, including writing paclet.wl files and authoring documentation for your functions. Examples walk you through writing and deploying paclets for the Wolfram Paclet Repository as well as your GitHub profile.

Wolfram Language Programming Proficiency

Instructor Led | FREE

Requirements: This course sequence does not require experience with Wolfram Language to start. It is a suitable course for those with introductory-level skill in any programming language who want to further develop Wolfram Language programming skills. The course sequence includes lectures of progressive difficulty ranging from fundamental concepts to more advanced topics.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1Level 2

This three-part course sequence is organized especially for those wanting comprehensive instruction and preparation for Wolfram Language Level 1 and Level 2 certifications. The programming proficiency course series meets for three separate class sessions and offers additional access to instructors

Wolfram Notebooks for Teaching Chemistry

Video Lesson | FREE

Teaching chemistry in person and in hybrid and remote learning spaces remains challenging and nontrivial for educators at all levels. Access to reliable chemical data, molecular visualization and student computer literacy are just a few of the issues educators face. This video lesson discusses strategies and resources for meaningful interactive instruction and provides example electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN). Prior experience with Wolfram Notebooks is not required.

A Guide to Programming with Wolfram Language

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of Wolfram Language

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Go beyond the basics of programming in Wolfram Language. Learn how to write more complex programs in different programming styles as well as utilize flow control primitives and other features of this high-level programming language. Wolfram Language has a wealth of built-in functions that require little or no programming, but there are special applications that require programming to get the code to do things that go beyond those built-in capabilities. This course offers a collection of useful tips and technical details for intermediate-level programmers.

Advanced 3D Graphics in the Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

The Wolfram Language provides incredibly flexible and powerful graphics primitives for general use as well as for highly sophisticated visualization. This class presents a walk-through of 3D graphics options, including lighting control, camera setup and surface properties such as opacity and texture. Hints and pro tips to make your graphics interactive, dynamic and more efficient are also included. This class is for those who are experienced with Wolfram Language graphics functionality.

Analyzing Text to Answer Fact-Based Questions

Video Lesson | FREE

This video class introduces FindTextualAnswer, the built-in Wolfram Language function that combines well-established techniques for information retrieval with state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to find answers in text. FindTextualAnswer analyzes text and can yield several possible answers, the probabilities of those answers being correct and other properties that can help you understand the context of each answer in response to your specific, fact-based questions. In this class, you will learn the scope of this function and some practical applications, as well as gain insights into how it is implemented and the deep learning approach available in the Wolfram Language.

APIs, Forms and Web Applications in the Wolfram Cloud

Video Lesson | FREE

This class shows how to generate web content using the Wolfram Language, including static and interactive webpages in the Wolfram Cloud. The video demonstrates how to create and deploy APIs and web forms. Security options and permissions for deployed webpages are discussed. Real-world examples include calling Wolfram Cloud APIs from a web application and hosting it in the Wolfram Cloud.

Becoming a Data Curator

Video Course | FREE

Join a Wolfram|Alpha data scientist for this recorded, three-part livecoding series as they guide you in taking data from the web, importing and cleaning it, preparing it for computation in the Wolfram Language and uploading it to the Wolfram Data Repository.

Building an App in 60 Seconds

Video Lesson | FREE

With the Wolfram Language, you really can build a useful, interactive app for exploring ideas in just minutes. Starting with the 60-second app, this course covers the ins and outs of the Manipulate command, the key to instantly interactive interfaces. You'll learn techniques for attaching controls to your computations, making interfaces usable and beautiful and interactively exploring everything from text and math to graphics and sound.

Building and Training Basic Neural Networks

Video Lesson | FREE

The Wolfram Language neural network framework provides symbolic building blocks to build, train and tune a network as well as automatically process input and output using encoders and decoders. Learn how to do this in steps, along with examples of logistic regression and basic image recognition.

Built-in Machine Learning in Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

You can apply machine learning to diverse subject areas without expert-level knowledge with the help of Wolfram Language. Even though you can build complicated models from scratch, you can also use any of the existing, pre-trained models on different inputs like text, numbers and images. This video introduces the many machine learning functions available for such wide-ranging tasks as image identification, text recognition, sentiment classification and others.