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Week 3 Homework

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  1. Create a simple regular expression exercise for yourself. This can be a small assignment, just spend an hour or so playing around with regular expressions and see what questions come up. Here are some ideas:
    • Add a regular expressions to your previous assignment or something else you've made in JavaScript.
    • Experiment with regular expressions in a text editor (like Sublime) and document how it worked for you in a blog post. No programming needed for this one!
    • Play the Regex Golf game and document your results in a blog post. No programming needed for this one either!
    • Redo the Flesch Index Calculator (or any of the other week 2 examples) with regular expressions.
    • Taking inspiration from the Pirate Translator, re-imagine a text using replace().
  • Write a regular expression that matches any e-mail address and validate user input. (Tricky step two: take that regular expression and use replace() to turn that e-mail address is made into a mailto: anchor tag.)
  • Create an example that reads an HTML page and removes any markup and leaves only the raw content.
  • Adapt the regex tester to be a replace() or split() tester.
  • Create a regex that matches only code comments in code.
  1. In preparation for next week, add a link to an API or some data source (even just data that appears in raw form on a web page) that interests you. I'll use this list to prepare examples for next week.

Questions?

  • Will we go over web scraping at all (in addition to working with APIs)? If there's not enough time, can you post an example or direct us toward a tutorial? Thank you! (Rebecca)
  • why doesn't this work: [\s-()] but and this does: [\s-]() (Oryan)

Data sources:

Regular expression exercises:

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