Assignments
Handin Instructions
For homework assignments (except the Collaboration Policy and
assigned readings), please email your solution to
cs0931handin@cs.brown.edu. We will only
accept plain text, Python, or Excel files. Bring the signed
Collaboration Policy to class. Be sure to read the Homework Policy for more detailed
information about late handins, extensions, and grades.
| Date | Topic | Class Materials | Assignment | Due Date | Extra Files |
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| Introduction to Computation | |||||
| Th 1/24 | Liberal Media Bias [slides] | Missive |
Collaboration Policy "On the Bias" HW 0-1 |
T 1/29 | |
| Voting Patterns in Excel: Assessing the Liberalness of U.S. Senators | |||||
| T 1/29 | Forming a Computational Problem & XML [slides] | Vote URL | HW 1-1 | T 2/5 |
HW 1-1Part1.xlsx HW 1-1Part2.xlsx GradeSheet.xlsx |
| Th 1/31 | Data Collection [slides] |
ACT 1-1 Senate URL xml2csv-conv.jar congress112_allvotes.xlsx |
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| T 2/5 | Ranking Senators (1/2) [slides] |
ACT 1-1 ACT 1-2 [sol.xlsx] |
HW 1-2 | T 2/12 | HW1-2_Starter.xlsx |
| Th 2/7 | Ranking Senators (2/2) [slides] |
ACT 1-3 ACT1-3_starter.xlsx [sol.xlsx] |
Project 1 Project Rubric |
(Proposal) Th 2/14 |
Political Books www.data.gov |
| (Project) T 2/26 |
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| T 2/12 | Discovering Voting Patterns (1/2) [slides] |
ACT1-3_finished.xlsx ACT 1-4 ACT1-4_starter.xlsx |
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| Th 2/14 | Discovering Voting Patterns (2/2) |
ACT1-5_starter.xlsx allcompare_starter.xlsx |
finished.xlsx ClusteringMacro.xlsm | ||
| T 2/19 | No Class (President's Day Weekend) | ||||
| Textual Analysis in Python: Building a Concordance for a Text | |||||
| Th 2/21 | Textual Analysis & Intro to Python [slides] |
GoogleNgrams Python 2.6.6 Oz Books |
HW 2-1 | T 2/26 | |
| T 2/26 | Your First Python Program [slides] |
ACT2-1 ACT2-1.py [sol.py] poem.txt |
HW 2-2 | T 3/5 |
moby-starter.py HW2-2.py |
| Th 2/28 | Summary Statistics (1/2) [slides] |
ACT2-2 ACT2-2.py [sol.py] MobyDick.txt |
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| T 3/5 | Summary Statistics (2/2) [slides (ppt)] |
ACT2-3 ACT2-3.py [sol.py] MobyDick.txt Alphabet Maps |
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| Th 3/7 | Vocabulary Size of Moby Dick |
functionErrors.py ACT2-4.py [finished] MobyDick.txt |
HW 2-3 | Th 3/14 | HW2-3.py |
| T 3/12 | Python Dictionaries [slides] |
ACT2-5 ACT2-5.py [sol.py] |
HW 2-4 | Th 3/21 | HW2-4.py |
| Th 3/14 | User Input, Reading Online Data, String Functions [slides] |
ACT2-6 ACT2-6.py [sol.py] |
Python String Methods Edited in-class IDLE session |
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| T 3/19 | Project 2 [slides] |
Text Data Sources DataImport.py |
Project 2 Project Rubric |
(Proposal) Th 4/4 |
Example_Skeleton.py Senate Social Network |
| (Progress) W 4/10 |
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| (Project) T 4/16 |
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| Th 3/21 | Determining Authorship [slides] | ACT2-7.zip | ACT2-7_sol.zip | ||
| T 3/26 | No Class (Spring Break) | ||||
| Th 3/28 | No Class (Spring Break) | ||||
| Putting It All Together | |||||
| T 4/2 | Randomness and Google Earth [slides] |
DOMA arguments Google Earth CIT.kml DecToHexConverter |
HW 3-1 | T 4/9 | HW3-1.py Code from class |
| Th 4/4 | Regular Expressions [slides] |
ACT3-2 regexpal.com ACT3-2.py poem.txt PythonRE |
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| T 4/9 | More Regular Expressions [slides] |
re_tester.py zombify.py pnp.txt Match Objects |
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| Th 4/11 | Project 2 Peer Review | ||||
| Final Project | |||||
| T 4/16 | Final Project [slides] & Gideon Goldin from CLPS |
Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3 k-Means clustering animation |
Final Project Project Rubric |
(Proposal) T 4/23 | |
| (Project) T 5/7 |
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| Th 4/18 | Final Project Work Time & John Mulligan from English |
Times Haiku (1, 2, 3) Clustering the USA |
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| T 4/23 | Final Project Work Time & Jean Bower from the Center for Digital Scholarship | Proposal Due | |||
| Th 4/25 | Final Project Work Time & Megan Reilly from CLPS | ||||
| T 4/30 | Final Project Work Time (Reading Period) | ||||
| Th 5/2 | Final Project Work Time (Reading Period) | ||||
| T 5/7 | Optional presentations and pizza party | Final Project Due | |||
| Fri 5/10 | Exam Period (Interactive Grading) 9AM-Noon | ||||