Here’s the syllabus and schedule. Notes for each course session will appear here. (There will be a good deal of material repeated or revised from Programming from A to Z.)

• Session 01: Introduction and UNIX tutorial.
• Session 02: The source text. Making decisions about lines.
• Session 03: Chance operations. Simple models of text.
• Session 04: Regular expressions.
• Session 05: Functions and modules.
• Session 06: Poetic form. Classes and objects.
• Session 07: Getting data from the web.
• Session 08: Midterm presentations and catch-up.
• Session 09: Topics: N-Grams and Markov chains.
• Session 10: Topics II: Recursion and context-free grammars.
• Session 10: Topics III: Miscellaneous (list comprehensions, text visualization, Python CGI).