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Linguistics 270, Winter 2006
Introduction to Programming for Linguists
Schedule
| Week | Dates | Topic | Reading | Homework |
| 1 | 1/3 | Course Overview, Python Intro | None |
None |
| 1/5 | Numbers, Strings, Functions | Chapters 1,2,3,5 |
| 2 |
1/9 |
Conditionals, while loops, library basics |
Chapters 4, 6 |
Homework 1, due 1/12 |
| 1/10 |
Lists, tuples, sets, sorting |
Chapters 8,9 |
| 1/12 |
for loop, yield, dictionaries |
Chapter 10, yield documentation
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| 3 |
1/16 |
Holiday: MLK |
None |
Homework 2, due 1/21 |
| 1/17 |
Text Processing, Regular Expressions |
Chapter 7, Regular expression tutorial |
| 1/19 |
Input and Output |
Chapter 11, file objects, os, os.path, shutil, pickle, gzip
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| 4 |
1/23 |
Call Stack, Exceptions, Debugging |
Appendix A, Debugger documentation
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Homework 3, due 1/26 |
| 1/24 |
Objects I |
Chapters 12, 13
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| 1/26 |
Objects II |
Chapters 14, 15, 16, classes and types, special method names
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| 5 |
1/30 |
Probabilty |
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Homework 4, due 2/2 |
| 1/31 |
Language Modeling |
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| 2/2 |
N-grams |
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| 6 |
2/6 |
Smoothing |
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Homework 5, due 2/9 |
| 2/7 |
Mixture Models, Data Partitions |
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| 2/9 |
Basic Syntax |
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| 7 |
2/13 |
Tree Geometry |
Chapter 20 |
Homework 6, due 2/16 |
| 2/14 |
Shift-Reduce Parsing |
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| 2/16 |
Context Free Grammar |
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| 8 |
2/20 |
Holiday: President's Day |
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Homework 7, due 2/23 |
| 2/21 |
Penn Treebank, PCFG |
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| 2/23 |
Parsing |
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| 9 |
2/27 |
Unification Grammar |
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Homework 8, due 3/2 |
| 2/28 |
Unification Grammar |
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| 3/2 |
Unification Grammar |
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| 10 |
3/6 |
Command line options, Unit Testing |
optparse documentation, unittest documentation |
Homework 9, due 3/9 |
| 3/8 |
Distributing Modules, Documentation |
Module distribution documentation, epydoc documentation
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| 3/9 |
The Real World |
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