If you already use Python all the time...

By the way, if you already know Python very well, this beginning stuff is probably really not super-interesting. Sorry about that. I want everyone to get to a point where they’re comfortable enough with Python to make it do simple things and know how to find out more as needed later. I’ll see if after this week I can try to come up with some alternative, more advanced things to do that might be more interesting/challenging if you already are quite well up to speed on list comprehensions and slices and functions and classes and so forth. At its core, this course is still more a “programming for linguists” course than a “linguistics for programmers” course, but I’ll try to get us to a point where everyone’s doing stuff that’s new to them before long (but absolutely without leaving those of you for whom Python/programming is new lost in the woods).

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