python resources

I am learning python to work with texts.  I’m not a programmer, but since I want to be able to do simple things that a computer can do way faster than I can (like, for example, count words), I am picking up some new skillzzzzz.  Here’s what I’ve been using: tutorials https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python (+) free, thorough, […]

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Beat the Devil

It doesn’t get much better than this: “Satan’s Computer–Doug is an ace arcade player-he always seems to make the winning moves. Then he is faced with the ultimate test, an incredible computer game called Beat the Devil, in which much more than his ego is on the line. It’s the most exciting-and the most dangerous-challenge […]

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Walter Benjamin

  On April 17 we had a roundtable discussion on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” here at FAU.  I learned a lot from this event and am leaning evermore towards this presentation format, especially as opposed to the single-authored paper recitation/reading that dominates the MLA.

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