Programming and Processing

In-Class Agenda

• Complete the Installation Progress survey for attendance credit
• Discuss the assigned readings.
• Troubleshoot course installations here.
• Basic Python: introduction.
• slides

Assigned Materials

• Bamman et. al Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.00118
• Read chapter 2 (data types) of the Python for Humanists Textbook. Please note that this is extremely introductory, and feel free to skip if it is review for you.
• Vincent, Nick, and Hanlin Li. “GitHub Copilot and the Exploitation of ‘Data Labor’: A Wake-Up Call for the Tech Industry.” PSA Group (blog), July 8, 2021. https://www.psagroup.org/blogposts/101.

Additional Materials

• Chiang, Ted. “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web.” The New Yorker, February 9, 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web.

Homework

• Complete a forum post and hypothesis annotations for the readings for next week (Canvas discussion, due 1/27)
• Complete to the best of your ability the installations for the course tools, available here. Please reach out to TA and instructor if you run into any issues!
• Post screenshots of your VSCODE with Github Copilot running, pandas import, and anaconda environment (Canvas, due 1/30)
• Post screenshots of completed quizzes from textbooks (Canvas, due 1/28)