corresponding course (#1)

One of the authors of the IFComp 2009 game Earl Grey also teaches some cool classes in NYC, some of which happen to be on elit using Python.

The Spring class started recently. Though I make it a habit to browse the UW and Hugo House class schedules for any similar kind of course (on the craft and practice of elit), I’ve never found one, so though I’m a little behind I’ve decided to follow along with this one as best I can. There’s some great material in the syllabus and the class notes. From the first class:

Suggested exercises

This is just to grep. Use a combination of the UNIX commands discussed in class (along with any other commands that you discover) to compose a text. Your “source code” for this exercise will simply consist of what you executed on the command line. Indicate what kind of source text the “program” expects, and give an example of what text it generates. Use man to discover command line options that you might not have known about (grep -i is a good one).

[matingball ~/rwet]$ grep you | tr . \\n | sort
This is just to grep. Use a combination of the UNIX commands discussed in class (along with any other commands that you discover) to compose a text. Your “source code” for this exercise will simply consist of what you executed on the command line. Indicate what kind of source text the “program” expects, and give an example of what text it generates. Use man to discover command line options that you might not have known about (grep -i is a good one).
^D
 Indicate what kind of source text the “program” expects, and give an example of what text it generates
 Use a combination of the UNIX commands discussed in class (along with any other commands that you discover) to compose a text
 Use man to discover command line options that you might not have known about (grep -i is a good one)
 Your “source code” for this exercise will simply consist of what you executed on the command line
This is just to grep
[matingball ~/rwet]$

Physical therapy. Take a text on paper–a newspaper, a restaurant menu, a book, whatever–and perform a transformation on it equivalent to the way one of the UNIX text commands we discussed transforms digital text. For example, to grep a book, you might highlight or cut out all of the lines in the book that match a particular string.

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