CSCI 0931 : Intro to Computation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Assignments

Handin Instructions

For homework assignments (except for the Collaboration Policy and assigned readings), please share your solution with cs0931handinspring2016@gmail.com. We will only accept plain text, Python, or shared Google spreadsheet 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
Introduction to Computation
1/28	Liberal Media Bias [slides]	Missive	HW 0-1 HW 1-1 Collaboration Policy "On the Bias"	T 2/2
Spreadsheets: Assessing the Liberalness of U.S. Senators
2/2	Forming a Computational Problem & XML [slides]	Senate Vote Data ACT 1-1	HW1-2	Th 2/4
2/4	Data Collection [slides]	ACT 1-1 cont.	HW1-3	T 2/9
2/9	Ranking Senators (1/2) [slides]	ACT 1-2 [solution]	HW 1-4	Th 2/11
2/11	Ranking Senators (2/2)[slides]	ACT 1-3 [solution]			Senate voting similarity chart on NYTimes.com
2/16	Discovering Patterns [slides]	ACT 1-4 (with starter) Project Example 1 Project Example 2	HW1-5	F 2/19	www.data.gov Political Books www.govtrack.us
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Proposal) Th 2/25
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Project) Sat 3/5
Textual Analysis in Python: Building a Concordance for a Text
2/18	Textual Analysis & Intro to Python [slides]	GoogleNgrams Oz Books	HW 2-1	Th 2/25	Python Installation Tutorial
2/23	No Class (University Long Weekend)
2/25	Your First Python Program [slides]	ACT 2-1 ACT2-1.py poem.txt Example.py	HW 2-2	T 3/1
3/1	Summary Statistics (1/2) [slides]	ACT 2-2 ACT2-2.py MobyDick.txt	HW 2-3	Th 3/3	moby-starter.py
3/3	Summary Statistics (2/2) [slides]	ACT 2-3 ACT2-3.py	HW2-4	Th 3/10	HW2-4.py
3/8	Vocabulary Size of Moby Dick	ACT 2-4 ACT2-4.py functionErrors.py
3/10	Python Dictionaries [slides]	ACT 2-5 ACT2-5.py	HW 2-5	T 3/15	HW2-5.py
3/15	Project 2[slides]	Text Data Sources DataImport.py SCOTUS concordance example	HW 2-6	Th 3/17
			Project 2 Project Rubric	(Proposal) W 3/23	Example_Skeleton.py
				(Project Update) M 3/28
				(Project) Th 4/7
3/17	User Input, Reading Online Data, String Functions [slides]	ACT 2-6 ACT2-6.py	HW 2-7	T 3/22	HW2-7.py
3/22	Determining Authorship [slides]	ACT 2-7 ACT2-7.zip	HW 2-8	F 3/25
Regex and Other Tools
3/24	Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-1 ACT3-1.py poem.txt regexpal.com			PythonRE
3/29	No Class (Spring Break)
3/31	No Class (Spring Break)
4/5	More Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 ACT3-2.py Plain Text Dictionary Dict. Words Dict. Word Fetcher RE Tester
4/7	Finishing Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 (cont) pip.py	HW3-1	T 4/12	HW3-1.py casey.txt
4/12	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Proposal) Th 4/21
4/12	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Project) W 5/4
4/14	Google Earth [slides]	ACT 3-3 Google Earth CIT.kml gecoords.py gecoords_xml.py Find your color kml icons
4/19	Twitter and While Loops [slides]	tw1.py tw2.py twcol.py census.gov	HW3-2	T 4/26	twparse.py kmlgen.py kmlgen2.py getCoords.py twcol.py cities.csv
Putting It All Together
4/21	SQL 1	ACT3.5-1 w3schools SQLFiddle			db1_sql.txt
4/26	SQL 2	ACT3.5-2			db2_sql.txt
4/28	Python Odds & Ends
5/3	Project Workshop
5/5	Final Project Presentations