Week 2

Lecture

File structure and command line operations

Also read this for a more in-depth guide to file structure and command line operations. And read this for a bit more history.

Review of Homework 1

Getting Started with Python (Lists): Slides from Object-Oriented Programming in Python (Goldwasser and Letscher)

Learning Objectives

(color key: Python/Programming NLP/CL Software Engineering)

Additional Readings

The readings for this week come from the official Python tutorial. The topic is “Using Python as a Calculator”, but it is a good introduction to numbers, strings, and lists.

Additionally, please read the section on sets (only this section, not the rest of the chapter):

It helps to play with a Python interpreter while reading. Open up Visual Studio Code’s terminal and start Python (e.g., run python3 or py at the command prompt), then try out the examples for yourself.

Testing Your Knowledge

There are two methods not mentioned in the tutorial:

Given the following string:

s = ('There are seven days, there are seven days, '
     'there are seven days in a week. '
     'Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday')

Try to answer the following questions: