The Location Field is the New Command Line

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!
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Python Basics

• Loops & Variables (See Prototyping/Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me)
• Working with Lists, Dictionaries (See JSON )
• Text manipulation & Regular Expressions
• Working with files
• Functions, Calling & defining

• Reading and Posting data from/to a URL
• Posting a file to a URL
• Reading a feed

List of people's work today WOW ROCK SCISSORS PAPER LIZAAARD STOCK

• Laura's amazing shit
• Mirjam - fortune telling cards
• Danny - ascii ufo fly away from the stars
• Lieven - a tool we've all been waiting for // code page