Big Idea of the Course - You will do one big project

 

🎯 Big Idea of the Course

1. You will do one big project

• The whole class is based on one real-world project
• You will build it step by step over the quarter

2. Why this approach?

• Real projects help you learn better
• It feels more like a real job experience

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🌐 What the Project Does

1. Gets real data from the internet

• The program will connect to a website called
  Open-Meteo

2. What is an API?

• API = Application Programming Interface
• Simple meaning:
  👉 A way for your program to ask another system for data

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🌡️ What Data You Will Use

1. Weather data

• Temperature and other weather info

2. Time range

• Data goes back to 1940

3. You choose locations

• You enter a zip code
• Example:
  • Death Valley → 92328
  • Los Altos Hills → 94022

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💻 What Your Program Will Do

Step 1: Ask for user input

• Ask for your name

Step 2: Load data

• Enter a zip code
• Program fetches temperature data from the internet

Step 3: Load a second location

• You can compare two places

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📊 Features of the Program

1. Compare average temperatures

• Example:
  • Death Valley → hotter
  • Los Altos → cooler

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2. Find hot days

• You enter a temperature (example: 31°C)
• Program shows:
  • All days above that temperature
  • Total number of those days

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3. Find extreme heat

• Example:
  • Days above 40°C (very hot!)

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4. Find hottest days ever

• Program shows the top 5 hottest days
• Insight:
  • Many hottest days are recent years

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5. Change date range

• You can choose:
  • Start date
  • End date
• Then results update based on that time period

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⚙️ Tools You Will Learn

1. GitHub

• GitHub
• Used by real developers
• Helps you:
  • store code
  • track changes
  • work with others

👉 You will start using it in Assignment 2

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🧠 Skills You Will Build

• Writing Python code
• Working with APIs
• Handling real-world data
• Problem solving
• Using GitHub (important for jobs)

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⚠️ Important Note

• The project is challenging
• But:
  • You will learn a lot
  • It will be useful for your future

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🧾 Very Simple Summary

• One big project for the whole class
• Get weather data from the internet
• Use zip codes to compare places
• Analyze temperatures (average, hottest days, etc.)
• Learn GitHub
• Build real-world coding skills