Hands-on workshop on developing a practical piece of software with Python. The students chose to build “A Scraper for scraping newspapers and analysing news”.

Learning Objectives:

• Recap on How Python Works (in contrast to compiled languages like
• Recap on Python’s indentation based grouping of statement
• Opening a web resource (web page, file on the web) in Python
• Analyzing webpages with with Google Chrome / Firefox
• Traversing and extracting data from the DOM with Python
• Performing interesting analysis (frequency, levenshtein edit distance)

Registration at:

http://goo.gl/forms/K70XFX41ZC