The libraries episode currently uses the Python math library as an example - is there a better text-based library to use for this lesson?

Should we? and where?

Maybe using a dictionary/loop example to write out a file?

We might be able to steal some of this from here

Maybe move up Lists/loops/conditionals earlier and move libraries later.

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If possible, I would like to help in developing the lesson. How may I proceed?
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Annajiat

As I'm creating code examples for the various functions in my episode, it occurred to me that we may want to align the themes of the examples we are using throughout (either in process or at the end as we are doing the final edit).

I like to use silly examples (i.e. favoritePets = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird']) when I teach, but my impression is that Carpentries tend to use more serious examples. In fact, everyone might end up using different themes as they write their episodes, and it could end up a bit of a crazy quilt.

Should I just proceed with my silly examples, and we can modify them later to bring them into alignment with the rest of the episodes?

Move the episodes 1-13 from SWC Gapminder to this lesson.

Will need editing after move

Could use some opinions on this, I was thinking maybe we should add a section on using dictionaries. They are such a useful data structure. My concern is that maybe we don't need them for the end using nltk so maybe it isn't worth teaching?

Thoughts from others?

Add prerequisite language to the lesson homepage

We should identify how the introductory Python lessons will culminate in the NLTK lesson - what aspects of Python are core to NLTK?

Which episode to introduce format function?

I suggest we use " " for strings consistently throughout the lesson.

Any objections? @Karl-Holten @caseyschacher @claremichaud @annhanlon @maijxyooj @maxgray20

Also we should maybe purposely run into a situation where you would need raw quotes.

Develop a small portion of a the Python lesson that reads the contents of a plain text file and iterates over its lines.

Learning objectives: gain experience with file system I/O, introduce the concept of loops by looping over the lines in the file.

Add an introduction to the lesson home page

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Add episode on reading in a text file for it to be cleaned for better analysis

Topic Modeling Theory and Practice - Day 4 (practice)
-Start building the code and importing the corpus
-Hyperparameters on a model, what they do (theoretical)
-Have them run through and create the model
-Make the visualization
-Pass in unknown document

There are several episodes that contain exercises/information about using numbers and floats. Given that we need to trim the fat as much as possible, is it reasonable to remove all of those bits?

Examples:

• Episode 3 has a bunch on working with numbers. It might be useful to teach how to convert a number to string type maybe?

• Episode 4 uses mathematics as examples. Perhaps all examples should use string data type instead?

• Episode 6 introduces the Math library but probably shouldn't. We should introduce NLTK instead. This entire episode needs to be rewritten.

• Episode 11: the "pressures" and "primes" examples should be converted to something string-based.

• Episode 12: many examples use numbers. slight alteration to make them string based would be good.

• Episode 13 is almost entirely integer based. Also, it introduces Pandas (is this what we need to do at this point?)