Class 23

Held: Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Preliminaries

I hope you had a wonderful fall break.
I was less efficient in grading than I had hoped. You get snacks instead of exams. Sorry.
Today’s lab is all new for this semester. Let’s hope that our lab on debugging doesn’t have too many bugs.
DrRacket’s debugger crashes in some situations. Make sure to save before debugging.

Writeup for class 23 due Wednesday at 10:30 p.m.
- Exercises 4d and 5d.
- To: csc151-03-grader@grinnell.edu
- Subject: CSC 151.03 Writeup 23 (YOUR NAMES)
Read Randominess and simulation for Wednesday’s class.

They Call Me Q, Tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Harris Concert Hall.
MASSS talk on text analysis with R Tuesday at 11 a.m. somewhere in Math/Stats.
Learn about the CS major, Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Noyce 3821.
Saving Brinton, Wednesday at 7pm in the Strand.
Gates Lecture, Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in JRC 101. Professor Sylvester Johnson, Director of the Humanities, Virginia Tech, talk will examine the twentieth-century roots of contemporary national security responses targeting American Muslims as state enemies.
Convocation Thursday (11 am in JRC 101).
Protest BOT workshop, Friday 4pm in Burling 1st.

Bots are small automated programs that index websites, edit Wikipedia entries, spam users, scrape data from pages, launch denial of service attacks, and other assorted activities, both mundane and nefarious. On Twitter bots are mostly spam, but occasionally, they’re creative endeavors. Mark Sample will lead participants in the creation of bots that can “reveal the injustice and inequality of the world and imagine alternatives. … that question how, when, who and why.”