- Poynter article on Datakit provides a nice overview
- AP's DataKit: Helping Teams collaborate efficiently, by RJI, gets into more details on DataKit's origin story and capabilities.
Read and work through the following:
NOTE: You don't have to do the exercises in Automate the Boring Stuff, but you should type in the commands for code examples throughout the text.
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Lists
- Read Automate's Chapter 4 on Lists and stop right before the section titled Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List.
- Do the W3C schools lists exercise
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Dictionaries (key/value mappings)
- Read the top two sections in Automate's Chapter 5 on Dictionaries : The Dictionary Data Type and Dictionaries vs. Lists
- W3C schools - Read this W3C page on dictionary syntax and work through the exercises at the end.