Participants are encouraged to present their own code or give informal presentations on topics that interest them (no expertise needed–these are exploratory sessions). If you’d like to present, please contact Florian and he’ll put you on the schedule.

January 22nd

Brainstorming the Working Group

January 29th

Introductory Meeting

February 5th

Basic Python Vocabulary

February 12th

Working with Strings (see Automate the Boring Stuff With Python Ch. 6)

February 19th

Continuing to Work with Strings

February 26th

Chapter 5 of Automate the Boring Stuff With Python

March 5th

Continuing to Work with Chapter 5 of Automate the Boring Stuff With Python: Dictionaries

March 12th

Project: Working with ‘pytesseract’

March 19th

Project: Working with ‘pytesseract’ (2)

March 26th

Project: Working with ‘pytesseract’ (3)

April 2nd

Project: Working with ‘pytesseract’ (4)

April 9th

Project: Analyzing Stylistics in a Journal Corpus

April 16th

No Meeting

April 23rd

Project: Analyzing Stylistics in a Journal Corpus (2)

April 30th

Project: Analyzing Stylistics in a Journal Corpus (3)

May 7th

No Meeting

May 15th

Our first semester: a summary

May 22nd

Brainstorming session

May 29th

Project: Analyzing Stylistics in a Journal Corpus (4)

June 5th

No meeting (HILT)

June 11th (Monday instead of Tuesday)

Canceled (most regular participants would not have been able to attend today’s session)

June 19th

Project: Analyzing Stylistics in a Journal Corpus (5)

SUMMER BREAK

September 17th

Introductory meeting/brainstorming session

September 24th

No meeting

October 1st

Python basics

October 8th

Python basics

October 15th

Python basics

October 22nd

Python basics: lists and dictionaries

October 29th

Python basics: strings and beyond

November 5th

Python basics: while- and for loops

November 12th

Python basics: functions

November 19th

Python basics: “Fantasy Game Inventory” (chapter 5, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python)

November 26th

Python basics: “List to Dictionary Function for Fantasy Game Inventory” (chapter 5, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python)

December 3rd

Presentation: Florian Breitkopf

WINTER BREAK

January 31st

Spring 2019 Introductory Meeting (new time, new place: 2-3:30 pm, 616 Williams Hall!)

February 7th

The Royal Society Corpus (1)

February 14th

The Royal Society Corpus (2)

February 21th

The Royal Society Corpus (3)

February 28th

The Royal Society Corpus (4)

March 7th

SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

March 14th

The Royal Society Corpus (5)

March 21th

The Royal Society Corpus (6)

March 28th

The Royal Society Corpus (7)

April 4th

The Royal Society Corpus (8)

April 11th

The Royal Society Corpus (9)

April 18th

The Royal Society Corpus (10)

April 25th

The Royal Society Corpus (11)

May 2nd

The Royal Society Corpus (12)

May 9th (final meeting of the semester)

The Royal Society Corpus (13)

May 16 (final final meeting of the semester)

Recap and discussion of Summer plans

May 23

Topic modeling with the Royal Society Corpus and discussion of possible summer projects

May 30

Bring in python code to troubleshoot with the group or projects to collaborate on