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+# First homework
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+Hi, my name is Alexander, and I'm both a graduate student in [Musicology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicology) and an undergraduate student in [Digital Humanities](http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/). 
+
+## Expectations
+During the *Coding for Humanities* seminar, I hope to learn:
+
+* something about data formats
+* basics in XML, Python, and R
+* how to work collaboratively on a DH project