Intro to Programming Using Open Government Data

To do:

• Create open gov projects based off of the Python Workshop Saturday projects.

• API project:
  • What do we want people to learn?
    • What an API is.
    • Using the URL bar to query an API vs doing so within a script.
    • Endpoints and return values. Get vs put vs post vs delete
  • Good possible APIs to use:
    • Capitol Words? Or general Real Time Congress, or Influence Explorer. The key is that whichever API we use should be as simple as possible, with straightforward attribute names.
  • What should the API do?