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* Mirjam - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mdissel/cgi-bin/fortune.cgi fortune telling cards] | * Mirjam - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mdissel/cgi-bin/fortune.cgi fortune telling cards] | ||
* Danny - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dkleij/cgi-bin/textscript.cgi ascii ufo fly away from the stars] | * Danny - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dkleij/cgi-bin/textscript.cgi ascii ufo fly away from the stars] | ||
* Lieven - [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~lspeybroeck/constellations/constellation.html a tool we've all been waiting for] | |||
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Revision as of 23:04, 3 November 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!
- Every Icon
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