Intro to Programming Using Open Government Data: Difference between revisions

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* Create open gov projects based off of the [https://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop_7/Saturday_projects 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?
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