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by bite
4313 days ago
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I actually really enjoyed the article, and can relate: about a month ago, I started building openYorkU, a RESTful API for York University, because their data was not in any accessible format, and was just listed (in a .pdf). I thought student-made apps would work much better, and I should work on something all students can use. Some examples of why it's useful; when looking for courses - there wasn't any way of searching. I couldn't just look for all first year courses, that are 3 credits, and in courses A, B, and C. I also couldn't find all the restaurants, still open beside me that serve coffee (all the data York provided was on a .pdf). With an API, this stuff is simple. It's still a work in progress, and I haven't had much time to work on it lately, but if you're interested in checking it out: https://github.com/mlisbit/openYorkU-API . This article definitely encouraged me to continue on with the project. More Universities should have open data like University of Waterloo. |
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