Do you need to teach the basic notions of programming to students that are simply too fearful of complicated concepts and computers in general? Then “Conquer your fear of coding with Praat scripting” is exactly what you need! Written by a Social Sciences specialist who has spent many years teaching computers to inexperienced and, very often, fearful Social Sciences students, this book is organised in concise chapters that will help them create fun yet meaningful real-world applications.

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In this book, they will learn how to create a virtual piano and play “Jingle Bells” and “My Heart Will Go On”…

and create a “Find-the-difference”-type game…

and how to create a canvas and become the next Frida Kahlo!

By diving into this manual, your students will be stimulated and gain confidence. At the end of the training, they will be able to:

• analyse hours of audio signal;
• work with huge text banks and find an answer to questions such as “do adjectives precede nouns in Latin?” or “which is the most common word in English?”;
• create a text-to-phoneme converter;
• provide subtitles to video files;
• create quizz tests;
• conduct statistical analyses;
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.