Codelab Chapter 02: Introduction to Data

Homework to be completed before next Codelab session

Do:

• Write out in plain English an algorithm to sort a deck of cards.
• Write out in plain English an algorithm for a cashier to find exact change.

Read:

• Posner, Miriam (2015), Humanities Data, a Necessary Contradiction
• Horgan, John (2017), Profile of Claude Shannon, Inventor of Information Theory
• Atwood, Jeff (2010), The Great Newline Schism
• Stephenson, Neal (1999), In the Beginning… Was the Command Line; pages 1-10, through “GUIs”.