An introduction to computational linguistics for students with limited prior programming experience. This course builds a foundation for programming in Python while introducing principles of computational linguistics and natural language processing. The course begins with a review of basic programming concepts including variables, conditionals, loops, file I/O, and regular expressions with special emphasis on string manipulation. This transitions to a focus on the foundations of language modeling, corpus-processing, classification, and quantitative and qualitative model evaluation techniques. Students with substantial programming experience should take LIN 335.