Editing HCDS (Fall 2017)/Programming resources

== A1: Data curation programming concepts in Python ==
=== API requests and JSON ===
''Note that the APIs used in these tutorials and examples are slightly different in structure from the [https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ Wikimedia REST API] that you will be querying for this assignment.''
* [[Community_Data_Science_Course_(Spring_2017)/Day_6_Notes|An interactive lecture on API requests and JSON]]
* [DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_5_lecture|Another interactive lecture on API requests and JSON]]
* [https://mako.cc/teaching/2014/cdsw-autumn/lecture2-web_apis.pdf Lecture slides introducing APIs, HTTP requests, and JSON]
* [https://github.com/makoshark/wikipedia-cdsw/blob/master/building-a-query.md Jupyter notebook on making API requests]
* [http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/ Documentation for the Python requests library]: Excellent source of information on how to use the <tt>requests</tt> library.

=== Dictionaries ===
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_3_lecture#Dictionaries|Intro to dictionaries]]: a short overview of working with Python dictionaries. Download the code examples to play along.

=== CSVs === 
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Reading_and_writing_files|Reading and writing files to CSV]]: interactive exercise on reading and writing to CSV, with code samples you can download and run.

== General resources ==
* [http://learnpython.org/ Learn Python] provides interactive tutorials for familiarizing yourself with basic Python programming concepts, operations, and syntax.
* [https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ JSON formatter and validator]: a web tool that you can paste JSON into to see it's structure more easily.

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