Friday

Objectives

• Understand how Merge Sort works
• 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

Sorting

• Merge Sort

Review

Pagination in a Django application

Concepts

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

• The Merge Sort algorithm

Demo

• Merge Sort!!!

Assignments

• Implement Merge Sort
• Analyze a Data Set
• Group Project: Begin Wireframes
• Django: Implement a REST API for Imager
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End
• Automate Deploying Imager with Ansible
• Technical Blog Post: Publish Your Post (Due Friday Week 9)
• Today I learned...
• Sign Up for the Whiteboard Final