My Introduction to Web APIs
During the beginning of my Advanced Programming class, I teamed up with my friend Emma to work on an application that scraped data from Wikipedia. Although I had some previous experience working with API's back when I was developing Discord bots, I hadn't had any experience interpretting the API myself and parsing out the information in JSON or XML format. So while my partner Emma did most of the work on the front-end development of the application through Scene Builder, I spent my time figuring out how to properly make calls to the API and extract the corresponding data.
One of the more difficult parts of the project was that we were using GSON to parse the API data out with Java. This didn't have the same versatility that tools like the json module for Python. The process for using GSON to parse out data was arguably very annoying, but we were able to pull it off for this project. Later that semester, we used this same library to parse data for our four-person project, Tarrasque Manager.
