Linguistics 408/508Hammond Fall 2003

Programming for Linguists

This course will introduce you to programming for linguistic purposes. No programming experience is required whatsoever. The programming language we will use is Perl. We begin by learning the basics of Perl, how to program generally, and then we focus on linguistic applications.

Instructor

Name:	Michael Hammond
Email:	hammond@u.arizona.edu
Office:	Douglass 204
Hours:	Wed. 11-12, Thurs. 11-12, and by appointment

Text

Hammond, Michael (2003) Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers. Blackwell, Malden.

Requirements

Exercises:	70%
Presentation:	10%
Final project:	20%

There will be five small programming exercises for students in 408 and six for students in 508. The lowest score will be dropped. No late work will be accepted.

Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Due
1	8/26	Paperwork & overview
	8/28	Dealing with the computer	ch.1,2
2	9/2	Syntax	ch.3
	9/4	Syntax (continued)
3	9/9	Syntax (continued)		ex.1
	9/11	Input-output	ch.4
4	9/16	Input-output (continued)
	9/18	Subroutines	ch.5
5	9/23	Subroutines (continued)		ex.2
	9/25	Modules
6	9/30	Practice
	10/2	Regular expressions	ch.6
7	10/7	Regular expressions (continued)		ex.3
	10/9	Text manipulation	ch.7
8	10/14	Text manipulation (continued)
	10/16	Practice
9	10/21	Practice		ex.4
	10/23	HTML	ch.8
10	10/28	CGI	ch.9
	10/30	CGI (continued)
11	11/4	Objects	Appendix A	ex.5
	11/6	Objects (continued)
12	11/11	Holiday
	11/13	GUIs	Appendix B
13	11/18	GUIs (continued)		ex.6
	11/20	Practice
14	11/25	Workshop
	11/27	Holiday
15	12/2	Workshop
	12/4	Presentations
16	12/9	Presentations
	12/11	No class		Final project

Readings are to be done before the first day of the week for which they are listed.