#TeachersCoding: Building an Image Downloader for WODB

If you read my blog regularly, you know how I feel about using technology to manage repetitive tasks. It’s intimidating to learn to code without purpose. Seeing how code can be used in the context of making a teacher’s job easier is a much more direct motivation for learning to do it yourself.

Here’s my next installment in the TeachersCoding series. In four minutes, you get the basic steps and tools for putting together a Python program that will download images from Mary Bourassa‘s excellent Which One Doesn’t Belong website . All that’s missing is you going through the steps yourself:

This program doesn’t download all of the images from the website – that’s a task for you to figure out and do on your own. It doesn’t take much. My goal is to have more teachers get hooked by the thrill of seeing code they create do something that is practical and adaptable to their own purposes. We need to grow our ranks.

Share any issues you find in the comments below. I’m excited to get this out there and see what you do with it.

Relevant links:

• Christopher Danielson’s Blog – Talking Math With Your Kids
• Github files: http://www.github.com/emwdx/wodb/
• Python downloads: http://www.python.org/downloads/