I teach a class at NYU called Reading and Writing Electronic Text that is half introduction to Python, half introduction to computational poetry. the syllabus is here: http://rwet.decontextualize.com/ and the tutorial/lecture notes are here: https://github.com/aparrish/rwet I've taught the class many times before, but this year I'm revising all the notes and porting everything to Python 3/Jupyter Notebook. I've also made entirely new tutorials on dictionaries, RNNs and keyword extraction. just wanted to share!
@aparrish thank you for sharing this!
@aparrish There is a coy nook in Paradise for professors who publically post syllabi.
Thank you.
@aparrish Erm. *coZy*
Have I mentioned I haet haet haet softkeyboards yet?
@dredmorbius @aparrish I’d been hoping you actually meant it. I can't explain it, but “coy nook” resonates somehow.
@wrenpile @dredmorbius yeah I was looking forward to that coy nook tbh
@aparrish Cool, thanks! Are the tutorial/lecture notes complete enough that I'd be able to do the assignments without attending the class? Was thinking about working through this on my own
@tomharris i believe them to be, yes
@aparrish great! I'm looking forward to following along. I might ask you some questions here if that's okaay? I already know some python so the questions will more likely about the interesting natural-language bits than the basic programming bits.
@tomharris sure, ask away!
@aparrish Alright, you might hear from me when I get stuck 😀
@aparrish thanks for sharing, this looks really interesting!
Oh, fun!
Do you mean for any re-use to be under fair use? Or what sort of other permission or licensing have you or would you consider?
@deejoe the code and tutorials in the repository have an mit license. i guess i hadn't considered the license of the text of the syllabus itself, i'd have to think about that
@zacchiro and I very briefly spoke, in passing, with each other, at #libreplanet about some way of coordinating access to free course material for education about free software.
The general idea I think is for everyone to be better able to make use of what we're already releasing.
@aparrish
I absolutely love it!
I am always on the look for stuff that gets people excited about programming and makes it fun and useful for them.
These are great examples!
Question: can I reuse / modify your slides and examples in my course?
@aparrish looks amazing ! :)
@aparrish Thanks for sharing--I know some people who would find this really interesting (including me)!
@aparrish Thank you very much!!
@aparrish this sounds great (I have no interest in poetry though) but good on you! :3