The Location Field is the New Command Line: Difference between revisions

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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

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
Inge cgi joe in browser ===+=== preppin cgi joe for the wikiwar ===+=== which will only insert one image into the background, hopefully
Andre - time for a break
Silvio - IP Mosaic | code page
Dave - asciinoise
Jasper - most active wiki users / wikistats code

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 * Silvio - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~slorusso/cgi-bin/ipmosaic.cgi IP Mosaic] | [[User:Silviolorusso/ipmosaic | code page]]
 * Dave - [http://asciinoise.tk/ asciinoise]
+* Jasper - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~jvloenen/stats.txt most active wiki users] / [[User:Jasper_van_Loenen/Prototyping/wikistats|wikistats code]]
 [[Category: Prototyping]] [[Category: Networked Media]]