{"id":2247,"date":"2006-06-13T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:53:56","slug":"fear-not-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/fear-not-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear not programming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News librarians need not fear programming, says Derek Willis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">Washington Post<\/a>. He showed us how he uses programming like Python to create easy-to-use databases. To get a quick grasp of what he&#8217;s doing, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/congress\/\">Congressional votes database<\/a>. This database is available to the public, but Derek has created similar databases on different subjects (Washington mass transit, the Pillsbury Bake-Off) for reporters to use inside the newsroom.<br \/>We should view this type of programming as not altogether different from Boolean searching, he said. It&#8217;s just another way for us to capture and view information. It may seem intimidating, but it gets much easier the more you get into it.<br \/>Derek said he&#8217;ll be posting notes on his presentation later today at his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/thescoop.org\/\">thescoop.org<\/a>.<br \/>My two cents: I would have found this presentation near incomprehensible over a year ago. What helped me &#8220;get it&#8221; a little more easily was learning to blog with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a> software and using an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">RSS reader<\/a>, that helped get me more familiar with html and ways of manipulating it. Programming in Python seems like a couple of steps up from blogs and RSS &#8212; hard but not inconceivable. So if you&#8217;re clutching your head at the idea of Python, you might want to look at those two things as a way of getting comfortable with some of the terminology. 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He showed us how he uses programming like Python to create easy-to-use databases. To get a quick grasp of what he&#8217;s doing, check out this Congressional votes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/fear-not-programming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldnewsliblog","tag-angie-drobnic-holan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}