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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 14 Feb 1993 06:55:29 MST
Date: 13 Feb 93 02:21:38 GMT
From: mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ibm12.scri.fsu.edu!nall@gatech.edu (John Nall)
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
Subject: What is text processing??
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Not absolutely sure as to the best place to post this, but
this newsgroup would seem to be a good place to start :-)
I teach Computer Science, along with other duties.
I'm making up a course for the coming Summer Semester. What
I *really* want to do is to teach the students a couple of
new programming languages - Perl and ICON. But I'd like to
disguise it under a new name. The new name is "Text Processing,"
and the intent is to say something along the following lines:
"You are enrolled in this course to learn about text
processing. Text processing consists of X, Y, and Z.
You could probably do this with any language, including
Fortran, but some languages are better than others for
this purpose. Perl and ICON are two which I think are
particularly suited, so we will use these as examples.
Each problem dealing with X, Y and Z will be done in both
languages, so that you may compare them."
Sounds interesting, no? Problem is, I'm having a wee bit of
difficulty in my own mind deciding what X, Y and Z (above)
should be. I have some ideas, of course, or I never would have
proposed the damn course in the first place. But I sure would
appreciate any thoughts other people might have, so far as what
should be taught in such a course.
Thanks for any assistance.
John
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John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
"Come on, Hillary! There are a lot of us pulling for you!"