ISAW-GA 3024-001 | Fall 2017 | Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World

September 25 / Week 3

Text Processing with Python 1: Basics

Assignment Due

• Push a marked-up text to your GitHub repository

Before Class

Download/Install/Etc.

• Install Anaconda Python
• Clone https://github.com/isaw-ga-3024/python-course
• Work through some “Learn the Basics” examples on learnpython.org, including at least “Hello, World!” through “Basic String Operations”

For Class

Reading

• Alvarado, R. 2013. “The Code Problem” [Link]
• Wilson, G. et al. 2014. “Best Practices for Scientific Computing,” PLOS Biology [Link]
• Software Carpentry. 2014. “Creating a Reproducible Workflow” [Link]. Note also the Noble 2009 article at the end of the introduction.

Recommended for further reading

• Bird, S. E. Klein, and E. Loper. 2015. “Writing Structured Programs,” in Natural Language Processing with Python. This is an excellent overview of Python (in general) with a clear focus on common text analysis methods. [Link]