03/12/22: Live Coding: Making a Wordle Scraper and Solver with Jacob Denbeaux
Boston Computation Club
English - March 12, 2022 23:54 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBMathematics Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 03/05/22: Seize the Means of Computation: the Big Tech Disassembly Manual with Cory Doctorow
Next Episode: 03/20/22: An Open Conversation on Web3 with the SpiceDAO
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.