Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Syllabus for Spring 2012 here. All example code is available on github.

• Introduction and UNIX tutorial.
• The source text. Making decisions about lines.
• Simple models of text.
• Poetic forms.
• Regular expressions.
• Functions and modules.
• Classes and objects.
• Getting data from the web.
• N-grams and Markov chains.
• Recursion and context-free grammars..
• Python and CGI.
• Text visualization with processing.py (forthcoming)
• Simple web applications with Tornado (also forthcoming)