Wednesday

Objectives

• Learn about and implement the quicksort algorithm
• Begin to understand REST and how it changes an app
• Encounter the world of data science and machine learning with Python

Readings

REST

• What Is REST?
• REST vs SOAP
• SOAP and REST Basics and Differences
• Online REST Web Service Demo

Data Science

• Machine Learning: What it is and Why it matters
• What is Data Science?
• Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
• A Complete Tutorial to Learn Data Science with Python from Scratch
• The Importance of Data Visualization

Other

• Overview of QuickSort

Review

Concepts

• APIs and RESTfulness
  • What is an API?
  • RESTful APIs
  • Wrap Up
• Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning Problems
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Numpy
  • Matplotlib
  • Recap

• Whiteboard Challenge
• The Quick Sort algorithm

Demo

• Quick Sort!!!

Assignments

• Implement Quick Sort
• Analyze a Data Set
• Group Project: Create a Repository
• Django: Implement a REST API for Imager
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End (Due Friday)
• Automate Deploying Imager with Ansible (Due Friday)
• Technical Blog Post: Publish Your Post (Due Friday Week 9)
• Today I learned...