Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023) (section)

=== Week 4: April 17 ===

Today we'll be learning about the basic of web APIs and JSON.

'''Class session:'''

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=49d798d0-61b0-4998-b8db-afe8013c5ca8 Video of announcements and week 3 programming challenges] [Requires Canvas Access]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8aa88ce5-5de7-4b49-8920-afe8013c5cb9 Video of week 4 lecture part 1] [Requires Canvas Access]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=001c2a6d-71ea-478d-9ce6-afe801795f2c Video of week 4 lecture part 2] [Requires Canvas Access] (rerecorded material from the last 30m of class)
* [[/Week 4 lecture notes]]
* [https://github.com/kayleachampion/spr23_CDSW/blob/main/curriculum/week4/week4_lecture_part_1_bored_api.ipynb Week 4 lecture Jupyter notebook part 1] covering the [http://www.boredapi.com/ Bored API]
* [https://github.com/kayleachampion/spr23_CDSW/blob/main/curriculum/week4/week4_lecture_part_2_nominatim.ipynb Week 4 lecture Jupyter notebook part 2] covering the [https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Nominatim API] 

'''Assignment Due:'''

* Finish and turn in your [[/Week 3 coding challenges]] (Due Sunday before class)

'''Resources:'''

* Read chapters 7 and 9 of ''Python for Everyone'':
** [https://www.py4e.com/html3/07-files Chapter 7, Files] — we'll only be doing the section on "Writing files" (NB: you'll notice that the book uses <code>.write()</code> instead of <code>print()</code>)
** [https://www.py4e.com/html3/09-dictionaries Chapter 9, Dictionaries] — feel free to stop when you get to the section on "Advanced text parsing"

'''Class schedule:'''

* Go over the [[/Week 3 coding challenges]]
* [[/Week 4 lecture notes]] introducing new material on APIs and JSON
* Introduce the [[/Week 4 coding challenges]]  <!-- [[Community Data Science Course (Spring 2019)/Day 5 Coding Challenges|Day 5 Coding Challenges]] -->
* Project time—We'll work through projects