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03/12/22: Live Coding: Making a Wordle Scraper and Solver with Jacob Denbeaux

03/12/22: Live Coding: Making a Wordle Scraper and Solver with Jacob Denbeaux

FromBoston Computation Club


03/12/22: Live Coding: Making a Wordle Scraper and Solver with Jacob Denbeaux

FromBoston Computation Club

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64 minutes
Released:
Mar 12, 2022
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Podcast episode

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Jacob is a mathematician, computer scientist, and notably, co-organizer of the Boston Computation Club.  Today he joined us to give an interactive lesson on web-scraping, with Worlde-solving as a motivating case study.  This was a fun exercise and one we will almost certainly follow up on in the future.  We worked through parsing the ... DOM?  Is that the right word?  IDK.  And then entering text.  And then actually utilizing the feedback offered by the game to start interactively solving the puzzle.  We concluded with a brief conversation about the complexity of handling the clues in the context of words that have more than one of a given letter.

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The Boston Computation Club is a small seminar group focused on mathematical computer science, and computational mathematics. Its name is plagiarized from the London Computation Club. Boston Computation Club meetings occur roughly every other week, on weekends, around 5pm EDT (modulo speaker availability). The usual format is a 20m presentation followed by 40m of discussion. Some, but not all, meetings are posted on YouTube and in podcast form.