Welcome to the Tutorial!

Meet your Tutors

We are all 1st or 3rd year NLP/ML PhD students in Sebastian's Machine Reading lab

Tutorial Logistics

  • Tuesdays 8am to 10am
    • Yes, that's early for us too
    • No, we couldn't do anything about it
    • Please be here at 8am
    • Don't show up at 9:59am and expect help
  • Room: MPEB 1.03
  • At least two tutors will be present

Why should I be here?

  • This is the place to ask questions
  • We will discuss new assignments
  • We will introduce Scala concepts, libraries and tricks
  • We are here to help you
  • We hope to make your NLP life easier
  • The tutorial is meant to be interactive
    • Interrupt is!
    • Ask us!

Today's Agenda

  • Get you up and running with Scala
  • Show you how the interactive course book can be run
  • Start with some simple Scala code

Next Week

  • Almost everything you have to know about Scala to solve the assignments