Course Syllabus
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Computer Programming for Lawyers TuTh 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM Instructor: Chris Hoofnagle Office Hours: Wednesdays 11-12 in Berkeley Law 341 Tutoring Sessions: Mondays 11:30-12:30 (Room 129) and 3-4 (Room 112) |
Getting Started in CPL
Before the first class, please complete these items. Note that this course requires attendance on the first day, and there is an assignment due before the first class.
Course Schedule
Course Description | Attendance | Assessment | Collaboration policy | Getting More Help
| Class | Date | Topics/Assignments |
| OH | 5-Jan | Special office hours (3-5 PM) for anyone who needs help with Jupyter led by Mathew Cha in his Zoom Room. |
| OH | 9-Jan | Special office hours led by Chris (3:15-5 by Zoom). You must participate in this session if your Jupyter environment is not working |
| Tutoring | Mondays | Mathew's Tutoring sessions are Mondays, 11:30-12:30 (Room 129) and 3-4 (Room 112), starting on Monday the 16th. |
| 1 | 10-Jan | Week 1: Introduction to Python |
| Before first class material e.g. Read Chapters 1, 3, and 4 (skip sections 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, and 4.4) in Ohm & Frankle | ||
| Complete Problem Set 0. Problem sets are in bCourses > Assignments | ||
| 2 | 12-Jan | Please attempt PS1 before lab. |
| Tutoring | Fridays | Abie's Tutoring sessions are Fridays, 11-1 in Room 123 |
| 3 | 17-Jan | Week 2: Conditionals and While-Loops |
| PS1 due before class. Submit via bcourses | ||
| Read Chapters 5 and 6 in Ohm & Frankle | ||
| 4 | 19-Jan | Please attempt PS2 before lab |
| 5 | 24-Jan | Week 3: Lists and Iteration I |
| PS2 due before class. | ||
| Please Read Chapters 7, 8, & 9 in Ohm & Frankle | ||
| 6 | 26-Jan | Please attempt PS3 before lab |
| 27-Jan | Makeup: Week 4: Lists and Iteration II in Room 140 from 2:30-4:20pm | |
| 7 | 31-Jan | No lecture today |
| PS3 due before class | ||
| Review chapter 8, read chapter 10.1-10.3 plus the cheatsheet | ||
| 8 | 2-Feb | Please attempt PS4 before lab |
| 9 | 7-Feb | REVIEW WEEK |
| 10 | 9-Feb | REVIEW WEEK |
| 11 | 14-Feb | Week 5: Datastructures |
| Please read Chapter 4.4 (text files), review Chapter 8.4 (lists and text files) | ||
| Please read Chapter 10.4-10.6 | ||
| 12 | 16-Feb | Lab by Zoom. Please attempt PS5 before lab |
| 17-Feb | Makeup Cancelled | |
| 21-Feb | No class this week | |
| 23-Feb | No class this week | |
| 13 | 28-Feb | Week 6: Functions I |
| We're going to have less material this week as part of a catch up and synthesis effort | ||
| PS5 due before class | ||
| 14 | 2-Mar | Please read Chapter 11.1-11.2. |
| Please attempt PS6 before lab | ||
| 15 | 7-Mar | Week 7: Functions II |
| PS6 due before class | ||
| Please review Chapter 11.1-11.2 and read 11.3-end of chapter | ||
| 16 | 9-Mar | This week we will work our problem set in class. |
| 17 | 14-Mar | Week 8: Files and Directories |
| Please read Chapter 12 | ||
| 18 | 16-Mar | Please attempt PS8 before lab |
| 19 | 21-Mar | Week 9: Regex |
| Please read Chapter 13 | ||
| 20 | 23-Mar | For Problem Set 9, we'd like you to practice your Regex skills using RegexOne. Spend some time on the tutorial (15 lessons) and the problems (9). Don't worry about donating--I've already done so on your behalf :) You need only look over this for lab. But please complete all the lessons and problems by Week 10's lecture. |
| Spring Break | 28-Mar | |
| Spring Break | 30-Mar | |
| 21 | 4-Apr | Week 10: Regex II, PDF, and Excel |
| PS9: due (survey) | ||
| Please read Chapters 14 and 15 | ||
| 22 | 6-Apr | Please attempt PS10 before lab |
| 23 | 11-Apr | Week 11: Web Scraping I |
| PS10 due before class | ||
| Please read Chapter 16 | ||
| 24 | 13-Apr | Please attempt PS12 before lab (to keep up with numbering, we're not using PS #11) |
| 25 | 14-Apr | Makeup session: lecture only on APIs, room 140 from 2:30-4:20pm |
| 26 | 18-Apr | Week 12: Web Scraping II and JavaScript 101 |
| PS12 due before class | ||
| Please review Chapter 16; other reading TBD | ||
| 27 | 20-Apr | Please attempt PS 13 before lab |
| 28 | 21-April |
Makeup lab & special talk by Mathew on NLP We will work APIs in class. Room 140 from 2:30-4:20pm. Please read Chapter 17 |
| 25-Apr | PS 13 due |