Text Processing and Analysis

The syllabus and assignments are on Learning Suite.

The textbook for the course is Think Python.

Regex101 is a useful resource for learning or debugging regular expressions in python (make sure you click on the python flavor). Pythex is a similar tool, and it has a great cheatsheet if you click the button at the bottom of the page.

Friends don't let friends write ugly code. Making your code readable to humans is at least as important as making it readable for the python interpreter. You can check your code formatting using flake8, especially when combined with a linter, such as the linter-flake8 plugin for Atom. You can also check code formatting online at PEP8 Online. PyCharm and

To help you sleep better at night, you can always access an interactive python shell online here or here.