WEB 1.1 - Module 3: Lesson 3

Learning Outcomes 💫

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to...

• Write JSON objects (i.e. Python dictionaries) containing nested data.
• Retrieve values from nested JSON objects using Python dictionary syntax.

Video Companions 🎥

Vid 1 - Creating JSON objects in Python

Vid 1 - Creating JSON objects in Python

Vid 2 - Returning JSON objects in a Flask route

Vid 2 - Returning JSON objects in a Flask route

Exercises 💪

Complete the exercise in this repl.it and submit your work.

Written Companion 🗒

<aside> 🤔 How do we efficently package information so that tens of thousands of users can be served as quickly as possible?

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JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation.

<aside> 🚨 A JSON object can be used by languages other than Javascript! JSON objects find their origins in Javascript and therefore look similar to them—but JSON objects also look quite similar to Python objects too.

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