Python Dev and APIs with Nina Zakharenko

Interested in learning about how to interact with the web using Python? This interactive and hands on tutorial will cover the basics of interacting with APIs and the web in Python3 using the popular requests library. You’ll learn how to format HTTP requests, decipher different HTTP status codes, and deal with the common formats of the web like JSON. Once we’ve covered the basics, you'll learn about more complicated topics like cookies and authentication. We’ll learn about Python development with the Visual Studio Code editor, and how it can help you develop and debug Python applications.

Prerequisites:
* (Optional) install the requests library. If you don’t know how, I’ll cover the topic in the first few minutes of the session.

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Bio
Nina Zakharenko is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Python. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience writing software for companies like Reddit, Meetup, and HBO. In her spare time, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and tinkering with wearable electronics from her home base in Portland, OR.