Web Scraping is becoming a passion of mine. When you come to think of it, it involves much in the ToolKit, say, Language Processing, Databases, Regular Expressions and so on and so forth.
Isn't designing a spider much like designing a miniature software with it's proper set of variations, specifications and even Testing/Debugging as well?
Besides it just feels good to know that you can only automate this long and dreary Ctrl+S process once you really understand the website!
Of course, this improves the know-how about the Internet and what are the ethical boundaries of automating things and when we might be harming a website/server.
You know, while we are talking about generalizations - I am definitely a Believer in Python and it's sheer popularity in the programming world. Chances are that if you have a programming problem it has already been taken care of, by some library.
Seriously people, one can learn entire computer science course from Python only ranging from the typical "Intro. to Computer Science " to " Digital Image Processing" and "Cryptography" courses.
For some reason, it seems to be against Basic Human Rights, to make Education Fun!
[Edit 26-Oct-2015 ]
Doesn't feel right to end anything on a negative note, so I am gonna rephrase this one -
" Eucation is one of the Basic Human Rights, why shouldn't we make it fun? "
Isn't designing a spider much like designing a miniature software with it's proper set of variations, specifications and even Testing/Debugging as well?
Besides it just feels good to know that you can only automate this long and dreary Ctrl+S process once you really understand the website!
Of course, this improves the know-how about the Internet and what are the ethical boundaries of automating things and when we might be harming a website/server.
You know, while we are talking about generalizations - I am definitely a Believer in Python and it's sheer popularity in the programming world. Chances are that if you have a programming problem it has already been taken care of, by some library.
Seriously people, one can learn entire computer science course from Python only ranging from the typical "Intro. to Computer Science " to " Digital Image Processing" and "Cryptography" courses.
For some reason, it seems to be against Basic Human Rights, to make Education Fun!
[Edit 26-Oct-2015 ]
Doesn't feel right to end anything on a negative note, so I am gonna rephrase this one -
" Eucation is one of the Basic Human Rights, why shouldn't we make it fun? "
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