[Year 12 IT Apps] post from [echalk] python and public data hacking

[Andrew Shortell]

hi All

I have posted this here because there just might be some interested people here!
this is from a WA list

Andrew

Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton


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> From: mark weber <numbatmark at gmail.com>
> Subject: [echalk] python and public data hacking
> Date: 28 May 2014 7:55:39 PM AEST
> To: "echalk at lists.otn.edu.au" <echalk at lists.otn.edu.au>
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> labdien lurkers
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> this is really cool
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> when logging data to your computer from arduino. unlike the jim fuller days where you can use mswlogo, you have to read data streams using a language on you computer.
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> i chose python (or as the americans call it piethoooon) 'cos it runs on the pi and linux. and there is a reasonable chance i might cause an argument.
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> so now i am elbow deep in codecademy (their spelling) and trying to make sense of reading data from my arduino uno (which now sleeps under my pillow at night).
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> now trolling through youtube i came across this
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPZza_vZ3w (goes for 2 hours)
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> cut to the chase, this yank shows you how to use api's so you can get public data from websites. i managed to get the bus timetables of transperth (legally) and download it onto my notebook. when i have some spare time i will try getting the asx data that feeds ever 20 minutes into the public domain.
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> (if i could only speak mandarin. i might get a job. or bahasa.)
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> anyone doing this? hopefully, it is not part of the national currriculum. not only is it interesting, topical and relavent, it uses big words and feels slightly naughty. so it's out.
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> c ya
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> mark
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