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The videos in this section were created using a different editor for p5.js. All of the concepts should still apply, however, there are some minor changes. Most notably in JavaScript let is now the preferred way to declare a variable over var. If you would like to learn more about this you can watch this video about let vs var.

Question

To what extent can we deconstruct language and put it back together again?

Readings

• Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?
• What is a Transformer? More Technical Version of Above

Tutorials

• JavaScript String Object
• Text Analysis and Word Counting
• Introduction to Markov Chains and Ngrams

Code

• Displaying Strings | Code
• Random Text | Code
• Word Counting | Code
• Simple Markov Chain | Explanation | Code

Going further

• Coding Challenge: Word Counting | Code
• Coding Challenge: Keyword Extraction with TD-IDF | Code
• Coding Challenge: Character-level Markov Chains: Pt. 1 | Code | Pt. 2 Code

Reference

JavaScript

• String
• indexOf()
• substring()
• replace()
• length

p5.js

• Parse
  • split()
  • splitTokens()
  • join()
  • trim()
  • match()
• Display
  • text()
  • textSize()
  • textAlign()
  • textStyle()
  • textLeading()
  • textWidth()
  • textAscent()
  • textDescent()
  • textFont()