Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Syllabus for Spring 2010 here. Notes will appear on this page as they’re added.

• Session 01. Introduction and UNIX tutorial.
• Session 02. The source text. Making decisions about lines.
• Sessions 03 and 04. Simple models of text.
• Sessions 05 and 06. Poetic forms; regular expressions.
• Session 08. Functions and modules; classes and objects.
• Session 09. Getting data from the web.
• Session 10. N-grams and Markov chains.
• Session 11. Recursion and context-free grammars.
• Session 12. Python and CGI.