Solving Complex Problems Through Programming - September 17 2018 Lesson Notes

What are we going to learn today? Welcome Treehouse leaderboard We will start to learn about API's. Please write a program to parse some data from any TWO of these API's: https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis#animals import json import requests # documentation for this https://sunrise-sunset.org/api # latitude = input("Enter your latitude: ") # longitude = input("Enter your longitude: ") response = requests.get('https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400') # print(response.text) # print(response.json) parsed_json = json.loads(response.text) # print(type(response.text)) foo = parsed_json['results'] print(foo['sunrise'])	What is our home learning? Please check google classroom for homework.
How am I being assessed today? I will assess you formatively today, and make a professional judgement to what extent you understand our learning material. I will use observation, your written work, answers to questions, and contribution to class discussions as data to make my decisions. I will also ask you to complete a self-assessment which I will use to help me guage how well you think you understand our material in class.
As a computer scientist, you have: Confidence in dealing with complexity Persistence in working with difficult problems Tolerance for ambiguity The ability to deal with open-ended problems The ability to communicate and work with others to achieve a common goal or solutio
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