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Revision as of 10:11, 28 October 2011
Used by technology blogger John Gruber, "The Location Field is the New Command Line", is a programmer's reflection of the movement, and related tensions, of application development away from the single PC to the network.
Topics:
- argparse to build your own Python scripts with options
- What is CGI?
Contrast / connect the commandline with:
- An Inkscape effect ("old school" application)
- Modern web API, and RSS Feeds
Exercise: Turning a simple Python script into a CGI script (dynamic web page)
Resources
- ideas to link command line options to cgi?
- http://pagekite.net/
- Python Crash Course
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/info/developer-blog/2011/oct/07/programming-developer-journalist -- nice link jonas!
Python Basics
- Working with files
- Working with Lists, Dictionaries
- Loops & Variables
- Functions, Calling & defining
- Reading and Posting data from/to a URL
- Posting a file to a URL
- Reading a feed