Overview
This week we will return to A Curious Moon, picking up where we left off by reading the Flyby chapter.
Goals for Week 7
Start Tuesday by arranging yourselves into pairs for the study of the Flyby chapter. I will present what I did with the first several pages, and you will divide the rest of the chapter so that each pair presents part of it in class next Monday, March 27th.
- Jamethiel and Fallon: Page 75
- Christopher and Vaughn: Page 77
- Edward, Ahmad, and Telmuun: Top of page 78
- Antonio and Julian: Bottom of page 78
- Marin and Kaleb: TBD
Thursday, March 23rd
I know I keep saying over and over how much I like our book, well, I'm doing
it again! Jamethiel and Fallon are assigned the presentation of the
SELECT statement on page 75, but when I looked at it, I realized
it leads us down another rabbit hole, into
regular
expressions. This is a rabbit hole down which we want to go, so let's
take another pause in our journey through Curious Moon to explore it.
Your classwork and homework today is to teach yourself basic regular expression syntax. We will have a short quiz at the start of class on Monday to verify you've done this.
We will use RegexOne: Learn Regular Expressions with, simple, interactive exercises as our resource, and all quiz questions will be based on the examples presented in this tutorial.
The article Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions in PostgreSQL is a good read for us, but it won't teach us the skill.