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  1. Problem Set 1, Spring 2020

    This problem set is worth 17.5% of the grade in this course. It is due on Friday, February 7, at 5pm, via email to Diana Dewalle. It has four short questions, each of which is worth 25 points.

    How to turn in this problem set: each of the problems …

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  2. Problem Set 2, Spring 2020

    This problem set is worth 17.5% of the grade in this course. It is due on Friday, March 6, at 5pm, via email to Diana Dewalle.

    How to turn in this problem set: As before, please turn in all your code, and, if you have any prose to write …

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  3. Problem Set 1: Answers and Explanations

    Problem 1: Your First Class

    Write a class, called Citation, which takes the following required parameters: first_page (an integer), last_page (an integer), reporter (a string), and year (an integer), as well as the optional parameter name (a string). That class should have the method cite() which will print out a citation to the case, using all of the information it has.

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  4. Problem Set 2: Answers and Explanations

    Problem 1: Fun with APIs, continued (30 points)

    Remember problem 3 from the previous pset? I'd like you to go back and use the Caselaw Access Project API again, only, this time, I'd like you to plot line charts of the following two time series, on the same chart:

    • The total number of the uses of the words "pork," "pig," "pigs," "hog," or "hogs" in the Iowa state courts within the CAP dataset, and

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  5. Problem Set 3, Spring 2020

    This problem set is worth 25% of the grade in this course. It is due on Friday, April 3, at 5pm, via email to Diana Dewalle.

    How to turn in this problem set: As before, please turn in all your code, and, if you have any prose to write, your …

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