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?
- What do we want people to learn?