Conquer your fear of coding with Praat scripting

Conquer your fear of coding with Praat scripting is a teaching manual specifically written for students in the Social Sciences. The Praat programming language is simple enough to help you grasp some basic notions of programming, pick your curiosity and get you out of your comfort zone.

This book helps students learn some basics of programming by challenging their skills of reasoning and deduction but without introducing complicated concepts. No prior knowledge of programming is required. At the end of the training, you will be able to create verb conjugators, subtitling tools, syntax parsers, teaching tools, quizzes as well as to conduct text and audio analyses on large corpora and perform statistical analyses.

Conquer your fear is the ideal tool for teachers as well. The Praat software is lightweight, free and requires no administrative permissions to be installed on a public computer. The teacher will find a semester’s worth of content written in nontechnical English so that nonnative speakers can grasp complex notions.

In other words, you should read this book if you definitely want to:

• gain confidence in order to start programming;
• gain time in your everyday life;
• have a laugh;
• understand what is “under the hood” (how programs work, where they come from);
• offer a comprehensive, easy-to-understand teaching manual to your students.

The Table of Contents can be downloaded here. You can also get the first two chapters for free here.