1. What is a Literary Fingerprint?
What are some of the issues in creating 'fingerprint'
Where else do fingerprints occur?
What is
What is
How do we go from sets to frequency analysis?
Toward understanding Python dictionary data type

2. How do you read words from file?
I exist solely as the Canis Familiaris 'Bassett'
I ain't nothin' but a hound-dog

3. Six of one and half-a-dozen …
def wordsFromFile3(filename):
file = open(filename)
words = []
for line in file:
for w in line.split():
words.append(w)
file.close()
return words
Change one line to get all words in lowercase equivalent
See CommonWords.py

4. Six of one and half-a-dozen …
def wordsFromFile2(filename):
file = open(filename)
words = []
for line in file:
words.extend(line.split())
file.close()
return words
Change one line to get all words in lowercase equivalent
See CommonWords.py

5. Six of one and half-a-dozen …
def wordsFromFile(filename):
file = open(filename)
words = file.read().split()
file.close()
return words
Change one line to get all words in lowercase equivalent
See CommonWords.py
Reasoning about common words

6. How do we find 'common words'
Should common words be included in our literary fingerprint?
Where do authoritative sources originate? Determinable?
How can we experiment and compare common files?
Using Python sets!
Words in one set that aren't in another?
How do we do this in Python?
How do we find words in all sets?
Is intersection an associative operation? Do we care?

7. Set Operations from pictures

8. APTs for practice: great minds …
Membercheck and SimpleWordGame
Set idioms
List comprehensions
Understandable code
Why do we study more than one way to …?
Expressive power
Neuronal excitement
Creating connections
We don't have to