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Jupyter Notebook

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Also called a Notebook, a cloud-based interface for writing, executing, and presenting Python code

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Markdown

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A way of writing text that, when read by an interpreter, formats the text that you’ve written so that it includes styling such as headers, bold, and italics.

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Cascading Style Sheets CSS

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(programming language) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML. It describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in speech, or on other media.

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What is the file extension for Jupyter Notebooks?

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.ipynb

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State of a Variable

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What value is assigned to a variable

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variable

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a named container that can store a changeable data value

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state

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data that defines the condition of some object of program

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Reserved word

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a special category of words that you’re not allowed to use as variable names in a given programming language

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Snake case

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A style of writing in which each space is replaced by an underscore

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String

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A sequence of letters, numerals, punctuation marks, or other characters, treated as text

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Integar

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Also called an int, a whole number that isn’t written as a fraction or with a decimal point

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Floating-point number

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Also called a float, a number that includes a decimal point

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Boolean

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A binaroy variable with two possible values: true and false

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Concatenate

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link (things) together in a chain or series

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List

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An ordered collection of data in Python

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Dictionary

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A collection of key-value pairs in Python

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Function

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A block of code that describes a repeatable process or behavior

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Argument

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A value or other input that is passed into a function

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Parameter

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A placeholder variable listed in a function declaration

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Parameter list

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The parameters that a function expects to be passed inside to the main body of the function when the function is called

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Determinate function

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A function that will always return the same output for a given input

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Side Effect

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Any observable thing that happens while a function is running

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Return statement

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The main effect of a function, giving as a result whatever comes after the keyword return

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Control flow

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Also called flow of execution, the tools provided by a programming language to conditionally determine which set of instructions runs

Example: if/elif/else and try/except

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logical operators

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used to combine conditional statements
and, or, not`

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conditional statement

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logical expression

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Loop

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A construct that allows you to repeat a set of instructions a specific number of times, or until a specific condition is true.

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zero-indexed

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means that the first element of a list (or any sequence) is accessed with the index 0.

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instantiate

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means to create an instance of an object or data structure.
Example: When you create a list in Python, you are “—-“ ing a list object.

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Dependencies

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Other modules that a package depends on to run properly

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Python object

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A collection of attributes and methods

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Method

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A function that is attached to an object as one of the object’s attributes

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Attribute

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A set of properties that belong to an object

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abstract base class (ABCs)

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provide a way to define interfaces when other techniques like hasattr() would be clumsy. They introduce virtual subclasses, which are classes that don’t in herit from a class but are still recognized in isinstance() and issubclass()

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numbers class

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The root of the numeric hierarchy.

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abstraction

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abstract category of objects

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API

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Application Programing Interfaces
are web services that website owners provide for users to request certain types of data from large databases that are frequently being updated.

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web scraping

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basically glorified copying and pasting straight from the webpage, but you get the computer to do all of the work automatically.

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SQL data bases

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robots.txt

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root page of a web site that states the rules for that site about scraping (add this after the main URL)

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Request

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a query from the user to the web

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Response

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What the web server returns as a result of the request

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Status code

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A numeric code that the server sends in response with regard to the request’s status

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Rate-limiting

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A policy to limit the use of an API to a certain number of API requests over a period of time

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API key

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An authorization code that is passed to an API request and identifies the requester

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JavaScript Object

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JSON, a common data format used for API requests and responses that is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse and generate.

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Parameters

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Arguments sent to the API that define the request and expected response

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Representational state transfer

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REST, a set of constraints for building web APIs.

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Repository

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(repo) is a storage location on platforms like GitHub where code, data, and project files are kept. It allows for version control, collaboration, and organization.

Simply put it is like a folder on a platform like GitHub where you can store your project files and track changes. It helps you and others work together on the project.

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Parse

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To take formatted data (such as a JSON object as a string) and convert it into a data structure that your programming language can use, like a dictionary in Python.

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Web scraping

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The process of using a program to follow links, find data on pages, and download that dat for processing

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Web crawlers

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Also called spiders, programs that have the ability to automatically follow links on web pages and parse the data on a web page

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NumPy

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A library in Python that forms the basis for many other scientific computation libraries

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pandas

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Short for Paython data analysis library, a Python library that’s built on top of NumPy

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NumPyarray

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A table of elements that are all of the same type

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DataFrame

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A pandas data structure similar to spreadsheet

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Series

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A single column in a pandas Data Frame

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