Intro

• goal: Produce poetic or critical outcomes by compiling, condensing, filtering and adding structure to information found online
• me!
• you!

Intro to command line

• what is it?
• structure of a command line program
• program name, options, arguments
• moving around
• making folders
• looking in files
• searching in files

Intro to python

• the interactive interpreter
• arithmetic
• variables
• variable types
• strings
• indexing
• putting them together
• creating a simple program
• conditionals
• lists
• creating lists
• modifying lists
• looping through lists
• dictionaries
• functions
• using modules

The web

• what is html
• tags
• nesting tags
• attributes
• classes and ids
• the web inspector

Web scraping

• what is it?
• what you can do
• limitations
• basic process
• download, parse, output
• BeautifulSoup
• Selenium

Examples:

• downloading a list of text
• downloading images
• creating csv files or JSON
• paginating
• using apis