This hands-on session will build on your Python skills and take you deeper into the language to explore input, output and interacting with a RESTFUL API. Bring your laptop and join in the coding. If you would like to code along during the session, follow the “How To Setup Your Own Computer” section at the top of this learning lab: https://learninglabs.cisco.com/#/labs/coding-102-rest-python/step/1 before you come to the session.

1. Coding 203: Python -
User Input, File I/O,
Logging and REST APIs
Amanda Whaley – DevNet Community Manager
amwhaley@cisco.com
@mandywhaley

2. Agenda
• Learning Lab Introduction
• Parse JSON
• Get Input from the user
• Read from a file
• Write to a file
• Use the logging module
• Put it all together!

3. Congratulations! You have learned these Python skills:
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• How to get input from a user
• Read from a file
• Write to a file
• Use the logging module
• Put it all together!

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5. Coding 202 – 207 Learning Labs
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7.  learninglabs.cisco.com
 Coding 201 – Coding 207
 Next steps with Python
 developer.cisco.com
 Youtube Videos
 Cisco DevNet Github
 Get your DevNet Loot reward points!
Where to go from here?

8. References
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 http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
 http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html
 https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers
 http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
 https://www.python.org/doc/
 http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-008/cfbook014.html
 http://www.soapui.org/Best-Practices/understanding-rest-headers-and-parameters.html
 http://www.w3schools.com/jQuery/
 http://api.jquery.com/

9. About Me
Amanda Whaley
• DevNet Community Manager
• amwhaley@cisco.com
• @mandywhaley
• Lives in Austin, TX.
• developer.cisco.com
• learninglabs.cisco.com
“Those who never fail
are those who never
try.”
-- Ilka Chase

10. Thank you