User:Max Dovey/ PT/TRIMESTER 1 ntw6

Week 1

Alan Turing's Universal Turing Machine (UTM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_machine

was a concept for an infinite loop of tape that seperated into frames, each frame would present a different state. This created an infinite programming potential for reading. 

deconstructing the seamlessness of the factory line. The pipeline.

in the afternoon we played with Turtle.

http://opentechschool.github.io/python-data-intro/core/recap.html

https://github.com/OpenTechSchool/python/wiki/Facebook-Client

http://bitsofpy.blogspot.nl/2010/04/in-my-cosc-lab-today-few-students-were.html

facebook page query

[
>>> import json
>>> import urllib2
>>> def load_facebook_page(facebook_id):
...     addy = 'https://graph.facebook.com/548951431'
...     return json.load(urllib2.urlopen(addy))

load_facebook_page(548951431)
{u'username': u'max.dovey', u'first_name': u'Max', u'last_name': u'Dovey', u'name': u'Max Dovey', u'locale': u'en_US', u'gender': u'male', u'link': u'http://www.facebook.com/max.dovey', u'id': u'548951431'}
]

stuff to do & Resources - start fetching data from the twitter api https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/PythonTwitter http://www.lynda.com/Python-tutorials/Up-Running-Python/122467-2.html

mining the social web by o'reilly https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web updated github for twitter oauth http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/python-on-the-web/how-to-access-various-web-services-in-python/ http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html

replacing "Music" with "Crap" on 20 most popular video search from youtube

import json
import requests 

r = requests.get("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated?v=2&alt=jsonc")
r.text

data = json.loads(r.text)

#print data
for item in data['data']["items"]:   
    print " %s" % (item['category'].replace("Music", "CRAP"))

CRAP
Entertainment
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
Comedy
CRAP
CRAP
Comedy
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
Entertainment
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP

Week2=

In the morning we looked at SVG files, and how you can edit the xml of them in a live editor within inskape. You can also execute python commands by pasting in python drawings and the vectors will be generated within inskape.

In the afternoon we looked at making api grabs , loading them with Json libs

ajax.googleapis.com/ajax

add json extension for firefox

Json turns xml into a javascript object.

json has lists - lists [] append("milk")

and dictionary {} foods = [foods["chocolate"] = "love to eat it"]

runcron - can execute pythonn scripts from a server timed.

i got my twitter search function to write to a text file. Im going to look at automating that text file to network printer for this cloud project.

useful link http://lifehacker.com/5652311/print-files-on-your-printer-from-any-phone-or-remote-computer-via-dropbox http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html facebook - https://github.com/OpenTechSchool/python/wiki/Facebook-Client youtube api - http://gdata.youtube.com/ http://nealcaren.web.unc.edu/an-introduction-to-text-analysis-with-python-part-1/

Week3=

filepath = "Desktop/autoprinting/todo/" #define file path 

filename = "cloud101" #def file name 
#if file path does not exist make this
if not os.path.exists('Desktop/autoprinting/todo'):
    os.makedirs('Desktop/autoprinting/todo')
#add filename to path 
completepath = os.path.join(filepath, filename+".txt")
    

while True:
    q = "the_cloud"
    count = 30
    f = open (completepath, "w",)
    search_results= twitter_api.search.tweets(q=q, count=count)
    # search_results['meta_data']
    for status in search_results['statuses']:
        text = status['text']
        date = status['created_at']
        simplejson.dump(text + date, f)
        f.writelines("\n")

    f.close()
    
    time.sleep(55)
#if path exists 
    if os.path.exists('Desktop/autoprinting/todo/cloud101.txt'):
#lbr print 
        os.system("lpr -p -r Desktop/autoprinting/todo/cloud101.txt")