Intro to Programming Using Open Government Data: Difference between revisions

* 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?▼