Hi Andrew -
I'm not positive, but I think lessons of that sort are potentially
planned as part of the just-announced ROpenSci - DataCarpentry
partnership:
http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/ropensci/
https://ropensci.org/blog/2015/11/19/helmsley-trust-funding/
I imagine if you wanted to contribute to that effort you could get in
touch with either of those groups. ROpenSci (among other things) does a
ton of work to wrap APIs for easy data access within R.
Best,
Naupaka
On 24 Nov 2015, at 13:51, Andrew Francis wrote:
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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