Since students will work at their own pace through the course workbooks provided, this schedule provides one potential course of study, highlighting when assignments are officially due no matter what course of study is chosen. Students do not need to follow this particular course of study in order to successfully complete the course. See the assignments page for more details.

Date Topic Readings Notices &
Assignments
Reference Material
3/31/11 CHILDES & CLAN
CHILDES workbook:
chapters 1 & 2
Exercises for CHILDES chapters 1 & 2 CLAN user's manual
4/7/11 PERL:
Introduction, Setup, & Scalar Data
PERL workbook:
chapters 1, 2, & 3
Exercises for PERL chapter 3
LP5: 9,
LP5: 15-16,
LP5: 19-36

4/14/11 PERL:
Lists & Arrays
PERL workbook:
chapter 4
Exercises for PERL chapter 4 LP5: 39-53
4/21/11
PERL:
Input & Output, Modules
PERL workbook:
chapter 5
Exercises for PERL chapter 5 LP5: 83-89,
LP5: 169-171
4/28/11 PERL:
Subroutines
PERL workbook:
chapter 6
Exercises for PERL chapter 6
Three exercise sets must have been submitted to/demonstrated for the instructor by this date
LP5: 55-69,
LP5: 214-217
5/5/11 PERL: Learning Simulation

PERL workbook:
chapter 7
Larger exercise 1
5/12/11 PERL: Hashes & References

PERL workbook:
chapter 8
Exercises for PERL chapter 8 LP5: 93-104
5/19/11 PERL: Regular Expressions
PERL workbook:
chapter 9
Exercises for PERL chapter 9 LP5: 107-142
5/26/11 PERL: Input Conversion

PERL workbook:
chapter 10
Larger exercise 2
6/2/11 PERL: Using NLP Tools

PERL workbook:
chapter 11
Larger exercise 3
Submitted to/demonstrated for the instructor by this date:
Option A: three additional exercise sets and one larger exercise
Option B: one additional exercise set and two larger exercises