Class Schedule¶

Day 1: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - Text Adventures
- Our short and brutal journey in computation
- What is a computer?
- What is a story?
- What are algorithms?
- Text is our universal interface
- Lab practicum
- For next class
- Homework
- Install Atom Text Editor
- Install Google Chrome and Secure Shell
Day 2: Thursday, January 12, 2017 - Introducing the Command Line
- Homework
- In-class work
- Hands-on exercises (which we did not get to)
- Do one thing and do it well
- grep
- Why curl?
Day 3: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - Practical Pipes
- Homework
- Connecting programs through text
- Writing shell scripts
- Understanding structured text as data
- Trump bots
- Thoughts on tracking the Trump Administration
Day 4: Thursday, January 19, 2017 - Theory of the Pipe
- Homework
- Our dev server
- The Unix Pipe
- Why we don’t Bash all the time
Day 5: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - Introductory Python, Part 1
- Readings and Concepts for Thursday
- To be continued
Day 6: Thursday, January 26, 2017 - Python Introduction Part 2
- Readings
- The for-loop is everything
- What is an API?
Day 7: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - Data serialization
- Assignment
- Understand csv.reader, csv.DictReader, etc.
- JSON
- APIs
Day 8: Thursday, February 2, 2017 - Real-world APIs
- Assignments
- Real-world meets APIs
- How to sort
- Warmup with ProPublica’s Represent API
Day 9: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - Web Scraping 1
- Homework
- Parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup
- Web-scraping in the wild
- Fun, selfish uses of web-scraping
Day 10: Thursday, February 9, 2017 - Web Scraping 2
- Understanding the web and the web inspector
- Exercises/Homework
- Why web-scraping (and real-world data gathering) is hard
Day 11: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - Real-world catchup
- Exercises/Homework
- Let’s geocode with Mapzen!
Day 12: Thursday, February 16, 2017 - Geocoding Fun!
- Preview of using the Twitter API / bots
- Imports and modules and organization
- Using geocoding (and other APIS) in the real world
Day 13: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - Canceled Class/Marty Baron speaks
- News applications and investigative journalism
Day 14: Thursday, February 23, 2017 - Face the APIs
- Face fun (pop quiz, etc.)
- AWS, Access, and APIs
- ‘D’ is for data, deserialization, and death
- Caching
- About the project
Day 15: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - Thinking about Bots
- Project Bots
- Assignments
- Why Bot?
Day 16: Thursday, March 2, 2017 - Purely twit bots
- Twitter fun
- Thoughts about bots
Day 17: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Bot Talk
- Work stuff
- Bot Data/Ideas
- Data
Day 18: Thursday, March 9, 2017 - Data Crunching
- For next Tuesday
Day 19: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - Making a Flask site
- For Thursday
Day 20: Thursday, March 16, 2017 - Project sharing
- Dates