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This week I have started to learn JavaScript. My second programming language after Ruby and I am impressed how much easier it is. Not because JS is somehow easier (it actually looks a bit intimidating in the beginning). It’s easier because I can focus on vocabulary, syntax and differences between the two languages now.\u00a0The basics are the same. I am far from being completely fluent in either of those languages. But with the documentation at hand I can get things done. I was very happy to find that I could write Fizzbuzz and the airport-challenge<\/a>\u00a0in JavaScript as well.<\/p>\n The language of the web<\/strong><\/p>\n So far I like JavaScript. I got used to the brackets and curly braces within days. What I like the most? It’s deep connection to the web. There is no modern browser it doesn’t run in and it’s hard to find a website that doesn’t include any Java Script. After a\u00a0ten-year-long intense\u00a0relationship with the web,\u00a0I am finally learning the language web services communicate in.<\/p>\n Today I wrote a little script that pulls a list of 38 cities onto a simple\u00a0website. When the user chooses, let’s say\u00a0Athens, from the menu, my script connects to the API (Application Programming Interface) of openweathermap.org<\/a>\u00a0and returns Athen’s current temperature. I was quite excited about this useful little tool. So excited that I\u00a0stayed at the academy until I had found a way to get the cities‘ geo coordinates and query Instagram photos taken around Greece’s capital as well. Once the layout is somehow presentable I will show you my first handmade mashup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bit more than five weeks ago I tried to read a programming book. It was recommended as one of the best books to learn Ruby with. I had a feeling that\u00a0„The Well Grounded Rubyist“\u00a0was a really good book. But I didn’t understand it. The author David A. Black writes about hashes, arrays, variables and… Week5: JavaScript and APIs<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,34,31,29,33,32,27,12,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codereporter.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}