Handout 1

Preliminary notes

• Survey
• Syllabus
• Paper-free class
  • assignments due by email and returned by email
  • handouts by web
• Make multiple copies of your work and notes
  • floppy disks
  • your own laptop
• Plan your access to some computer with Perl installed
  • This lab
  • Virtually all Unix mainframes
  • Mac OS 10
  • Install it yourself (Follow links on course website.)

Remember this URL

• http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~hammond/ling408-f03/

Today

• Programming in general
  • Examples
    • expmat4.pl
    • expprog.pl
    • tkexp.pl
  • Arguments
    • Collect data
    • Model theory
    • enhance web skills & and general employability
• Text editors
  • edit
  • Textpad
• DOS Window and commands
  • cd: switches directories/folders
  • dir: lists the files in some folder
  • type: prints the contents of a file to the screen
  • more: prints the contents of a file to the screen in screensized bits
• A simple example

First assignment