Computer Programming for Lawyers LAW 276.34 SEM 001 (4 credits) CCN 32042 TuTh 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM Location: Law 170 From January 11, 2022 To April 22, 2022 Instructor: Chris Hoofnagle Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:30-11:30. Tutoring Sessions: Mondays (Lydia) 5:15-7:15 in Simon 486 & Zoom Fridays (Abhay) 12-2 in Berkeley Law TBD & Zoom Zoom Link: Zoom Rooms for Class and Tutoring

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Before the first class: Install Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual  Use the latest version (Python 3.9) This manages "Jupyter Notebook" If you are a Windows user, choose to *also* install **Anaconda Prompt** -- this will be your terminal from which you will activate virtual environments and access your labs. On windows, Anaconda may prompt you to "Add Anaconda3 to my PATH environment variable. Please selection this option.  Watch the Introduction to Jupyter Video (in Files>Videos) and spend some time playing with Jupyter Notebook. You'll want to download this video because bCourses reduces its resolution if you watch it through the website. Read Chapters 1, 3, and 4 (skip sections 4.3.1, 4.3.2, and 4.4) in Ohm & Frankle. The textbook is in Files >. Starting with Chapter 3, please create a Jupyter notebook for the chapter. Please type in every line of code that is given as an example in Ohm & Frankle (with certain exceptions). For instance, in section 3.1, the textbook asks you to enter 2 + 2 and evaluate the expression in a program called "IDLE." We'd like you to test those expressions, but instead of entering them into IDLE, evaluate them in Jupyter Notebook. Exceptions: The Ohm textbook is based on using a text editor to compose code and Terminal/PowerShell to execute it, whereas we will be using Jupyter for both composing and execution. Code examples with a "$" symbol denote a command line argument. In Jupyter, those examples must be preceded by a "bang" (an exclamation point), as in !ls or !pwd  The exercise of typing in the code examples may seem tedious, but you will find that learning Python is like learning a foreign language. You can read examples and "get it," but you will be unable to "speak it" without actual practice. Complete Problem Set 0 and submit it via bCourses. Register for Piazza: https://piazza.com/berkeley/spring2022/law27634sem001/home and introduce yourself on Piazza.