Schedule
Project 3 is due at 7:59pm on Friday, 29 March.
Beenish has office hours on Wednesday, 3-4pm in Rice 442.
There will be an Exam in class on Thursday, 11 April.
Slides
Class 18: Functions in JavaScript
- How to Learn a Language (this recent study looked at whether a machine can learn language from the same information a baby does: Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child — we’ll probably talk about it in a few weeks)
- Functions in JavaScript
Code
The code we ended up with in class today is jsboom-class18.html.
We also started playing with jsfunctions.html (which we’ll look at more on Thursday, but feel free to try and look at before then).
Evaluation procedure from Wai Keen Vong, Wentao Wang, A. Emin Orhan, and Brenden M. Lake. Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child. Science, 1 February 2024.