{"id":4792,"date":"2024-03-25T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima_dev\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2025-04-28T04:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:01:36","slug":"reading-and-writing-electronic-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Writing Electronic Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5909\" style=\"width:856px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This course introduces the Python programming language as a tool for reading and writing digital text. This course is specifically geared to serve as a general-purpose introduction to programming in Python, but will be of special interest to students interested in poetics, language, creative writing and text analysis. Weekly programming exercises work toward a midterm project and culminate in a final project. Poetics\/text analysis topics covered include: the history of computer-generated writing in arts and literature; plain text transcription and character encodings; ethics and authorship in the context of computer-mediated language; poetic structure and sound symbolism; performance and publishing. Programming topics covered include: data structures (lists, sets, dictionaries); strategies for making code reusable (functions and modules); natural language processing; grammar-based text generation; predictive models of text (Markov chains and recurrent neural networks); and working with structured data and text corpora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course introduces the Python programming language as a tool for reading and writing digital text. This course is specifically geared to serve as a general-purpose introduction to programming in Python, but will be of special interest to students interested in poetics, language, creative writing and text analysis. Weekly programming exercises work toward a midterm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}