Markup & Scrape Off 💄

Class Activities

• Ian Milligan “Welcome to the Web: The Online Community of GeoCities During The Early Years of The World Wide Web” https://ianmilligan.ca/2017/03/14/new-chapter-welcome-to-the-web-the-online-community-of-geocities-during-the-early-years-of-the-world-wide-web/ web version no longer available at that link. Now access PDF here https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/11859. I’ll also upload it to Canvas and Google Drive folder. Remember you can do annotations from a downloaded PDF if you open it in the browser and activate hypothesis.
• Introduction to Web Scraping and HTML
• Fill out the mid-semester survey available here https://forms.gle/SUFThTzy6WtvMRCD7
• For those new to Python, be sure to review the Advanced Python Part 1 materials and take a look at the in-class exercise for reinforcing those concepts.
• Finally we will be reviewing the second part of Advanced Python together.

Additional Materials

• Jeffrey Veen, “A Brief History of HTML” Wired. April 28, 1997 https://www.wired.com/1997/04/a-brief-history-of-html/