Notes for the 2011 session, offered at Hunter College’s Computer Science Department, January 3rd-24th. (Note: These notes are adapted from a previous iteration of the class whose sessions were longer but less numerous.)

• Introduction; UNIX; PHP: strings
• PHP: Basic syntax, arrays, loops, functions
• PHP: Classes, web templates
• Regular expressions; Perl: strings and lists
• Perl: Syntax, hashes and style
• Perl: Modules; context-free grammars; Perl poetry; Perl on the command line
• Python: Interactive interpreter; objects and strings
• Python: Lists, dictionaries and sets, regular expressions, functions and modules
• Python: Classes and objects and getting data from the web
• Final exam review (in class)