Talking with Computers
Sample Lecture Material
Recreational Hacking
Plumbing and Programming
Asking Good Questions
Example Exercises
Navigating in File Space
Code Fragments
The Shell Game
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Getting Started
Memory and Variables
Conditionals and Iteration
Manipulating Audio Files
Example Exercises
Writing Shell Scripts
Ciphers and Secrets
Files, Dates and Times
Code Fragments
Keeping Track of Your Stuff
Example Exercises
Searching Email Files
Building Database Systems
Code Fragments
Don't Sweat the Syntax
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
Ubiquitous Syntax
Syntactic Drawings
Recursive Definitions
Example Exercises
Rube Goldberg Machines
Errata
Code Fragments
Computational Muddles
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
Numbers and Functions
Conditional Expressions
Data Structures
More Good Questions
Example Exercises
Manipulating Lists
Snowflakes and Grammars
Fuzzy String Matching
Designing Personalities
Code Fragments
Getting Oriented
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Organizing Memory
Procedures With State
Code Fragments
Thanks for Sharing
Supplementary References
Example Exercises
Mythical Man-Month
Code Fragments
You've Got (Junk) Email
Supplementary References
Example Exercises
Scheme for Filtering Spam
Code Fragments
Modern Architecture
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
The Logic of Control
Representing Numbers
Assembly Programming
Code Fragments
Do Robots Sleep?
Supplementary References
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Managing Processes
Example Exercises
Code Fragments
Under the Hood
Example Exercises
Code Fragments
Analyze This
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
Analyzing Algorithms
The Halting Problem
Example Exercises
Errata
Code Fragments
Forest for the Trees
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
Drawing Graphs
Web Crawling
Vectors and Matrices
Example Exercises
Code Fragments
Searching the Wild Web
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Summarizing the Web as a Vector Space
Search Engines and Term Frequency Vectors
Example Exercises
Code Fragments
Darwin's Dangerous Algorithm
Supplementary References
Sample Lecture Material
Introduction Genetics and Natural Selection
Simulating Natural Selection
Code Fragments
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Machines
Example Exercises
Pet Rocks and Things That Think