Microbial Informatics

• Homework is due on November 22nd
• Will have lab period on Friday
• Final project
  • Due 12/16/2014 (date that final exam is scheduled)
  • Should be a program that others can use to do something useful
  • I have ideas if you need one
  • Create a public repository with documentation in README file and license

• String manipulation

• Experiment: Let's write some programs together
• Learning goals:
  • Apply what we've been learning in class
  • Collaborate
• I have no idea how this will work out

• Vince Young got my wife and I addicted to the iPhone app called Ruzzle
• It's a 4 by 4 board filled with tiles
• Each tile has a point value associated with it that is proportional to the probability of seeing it in a word (think Scrabble)
• Sometimes there are double letter and double word tiles
• You have two minutes to get as many words as possible
• I'm not very good.

point.values = c(
  'A' = 1,  'B' = 3,  'C' = 3,  'D' = 2,
  'E' = 1,  'F' = 4,  'G' = 2,  'H' = 4,
  'I' = 1,  'J' = 8,  'K' = 5,  'L' = 1,
  'M' = 3,  'N' = 1,  'O' = 1,  'P' = 3,
  'Q' = 10, 'R' = 1,  'S' = 1,  'T' = 1,
  'U' = 1,  'V' = 4,  'W' = 4,  'X' = 8,
  'Y' = 4,  'Z' = 10
)

• The official Scrabble word list: SOWPODS

• As a group
  • GitHub repository
  • Need to develop broad pseudocode, have class break into groups of 2 or 3
  • Will need to define inputs and outputs so we can work concurrently
• Individually
  • Need to define tests
  • Need to push results to repository at the end of class