{"id":549,"date":"2022-08-24T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=549"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:51:32","slug":"reading-and-writing-electronic-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/reading-and-writing-electronic-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Writing Electronic Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reading-and-Writing-Electronic-Text-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Allison Parrish<\/p>\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. Prerequisites: Introduction to Computational Media or equivalent programming experience.<\/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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}