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Beginner's introduction to programming in Python
https://cdsleiden.github.io/python-tutorial/
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Do not introduce XML (or ETree) in API section #64

Closed bencomp closed 1 year ago

bencomp commented 1 year ago

In section 10 on data acquisition we introduce many topics. Many learners are not familiar with JSON, HTML or XML. Perhaps we should make webscraping a whole separate course, but we could start by not introducing XML, or by restricting our discussion to what you can do with XML using BeautifulSoup and not use ETree.

bencomp commented 1 year ago

The exercise that introduces the ORCID XML API is moved to "additional challenges".