Hi:

I am new to Software Carpentry. I  attended the "R" workshop during Pycon 2014. 
Some friends attended "The

Software Carpentry for Librarians" bootcamp. I looked at the covered lessons 
and I noticed there was not anything about

accessing web services. Especially in the case of librarians, I was a bit 
surprised by the lack of a lesson on web based APIs because

folks like the OCLC offer stuff like WorldCat API.


If it does not exist, I would like to suggest a Software Carpentry Lesson on 
WebAPIs. Some of the topics mentioned could be

why web APIs, HTTP and ReST, the cURL utility and Python with the requests 
library, JSON. XML and beautiful soap would be nice

too.


I am not a Software Carpentry instructor. However I have given Pycon talks and 
I think I could prototype a lesson. Not sure how

I would go about that though.


Cheers,

Andrew
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