Before Class

• Read the General Introduction from the section entitled Formal and Natural Languages through the section entitled Comments.

All Together Activity

• Give an example of an everyday sentence that is ambiguous.
• Give an example of an everyday sentence that contains redundancy.
• Programming languages such as Python are literal (not ambiguous) and concise (not redundant). Why might that be?
• Write a Python program that prints your name in a box.
• Add a comment block to the top of this program that contains your name, CSCI 107, the date, and a brief description of what the program does.

Active Learning Activity

Work on the assignment that is due on Friday.