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William Mcneill
LING 270
Seattle Campus
Fundamental programming techniques, including data types, control flow, regular expressions, file handling, GUI design, and CGI interaction. Content relates to a variety of linguistic concepts including syntax, morphology, phonology, lexicon building and foreign language corpora. No previous programming necessary; however, a background in general linguistic theory is assumed. Offered: W.
Class description
This course will teach the fundamentals of computer programming by writing programs to handle essential tasks in computational linguistics. In addition to learning how to work in a particular computer language, students will gain an understanding basic programming concepts that apply across many languages.
Note that there is a correction to the course title: the language taught in this class has been changed from Perl to Python. The two languages are very similar, but Python has a clearer syntax that makes it better suited for both classroom instruction and large scale research.
Student learning goals
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Class assignments and grading
Assignments will consist of weekly individual programming projects.
