CS 200 - Fall 2024. 9/25/2024

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Video of the Day

Socratica Python videos:

Logical problem of the day

How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb? And why?

How many Windows engineers does it take to change a light bulb? And why?

How many quality assurance testers does it take to change a light bulb? And why?

https://pollev.com/slade You may also download the app to your phone. Use the "slade" poll id.

Canvas Quiz of the Day (need daily password)

Most days, there will be a simple canvas quiz related to the lecture. You need a password to activate the quiz, which I will provide in class. These quizzes will count toward your class participation grade. The quiz is available only during class.

Click for today's quiz.

Note: the collaboration quiz is separate. It coincides with the first homework assignment.

Lecture 8: Python.

Announcements

  • If you have an upcoming performance or athletic event, I am happy to promote it during class. Just send me a note.

  • The Digital Ethics Center sponsors Director's Fellows research appointments, which pay $3,000 per semester. They collaborate with lots of departments and schools at Yale. The Director is Professor Luciano Floridi. He has his own chat bot: LuFlot, created by students who trained the LLM on Floridi's extensive writings.

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    Administrivia

  • I am available for lunch on Mondays at noon at Franklin College Dining Hall.

  • I have office hours Wednesdays from 4-6 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

  • ULA office hours are found at in Ed Discussions.

  • Homework assignments: [Assignments]. hw3 is available. Note: as of 9/23 9:43am, I have updated the tests for counttags. You should get the current version.

    Midterm Exam

    In 2022, the New Yorker ran the above cartoon. At first, I thought it referred to our exams.

    The midterm will be Thursday October 10 at 7pm in ML 211. It will be a 2 hour hand written exam. No computers. No notes. No books. No kidding. Students registered with Student Accessbility Services will take the exam in room ML 200, down the hall.

    Here is a practice exam. (solutions). Practice UNIX script. (solutions).

    Rudy will hold a review session.

    mt.py code for practice midterm

    Here is a great resource to practice regular expressions https://regex101.com/ Also, see www.regular-expressions.info which has a tutorial as well as useful examples, including HTML tags, email addresss, IP addresses, dates, credit cards, and lots more.

    Getting to know Python

    Hapax legomenon and Zipf's Law

    Utilities.html (jupyter) Python - Utilities

    Requests.html (jupyter) Python - Requests - a better way to process web pages, plus Beautiful Soup.

    Review hw2.

    Object Oriented Programming

    Oop.html (jupyter) object oriented programming.

    F String Formatting

    Getting to know UNIX

    UNIX Introduction Principle 1 - man / JCL
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