Programming from A to Z

Syllabus here.

• Week 1: Getting In Line. Units of text. Introduction to the UNIX command line.
• Week 2: Strung Out (On Java). The TextFilter library. Making standalone Java programs. Java’s String object.
• Week 3: Programming from ^ to $. Regular expressions. ArrayLists.
• Week 4: Flight of the Concordance. Data structures: sets and maps.
• Week 5: A Markov Distinction. N-grams. Markov chains.
• Week 6: Context Free (as in Speech). Context-free grammars. Recursion. Inheritance. Writing programs with programs.
• Week 7: Bayesed and Confused. Classifying texts.
• Week 9: A Significant Markup. XML and web services.
• Week 10: “Boy” in a Bubble. HTML; visualizing text; interactive text.
• Week 11: Hypernym? I Barely Know ‘im! RiTa and models of natural language.