Accessing Weather API with Python (Highlights)

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who knows what the interface means he wants to raise their hand and tell me what it interfaces there's an interface yes it's all like a screen like an interactive screen yeah that's an example of an interface but you know what what the meaning of interface means so a screen is a good example of an interface yeah but that is actually not exactly what an interface means just same time do you know what the interface means it's where two systems means fantastic that is exactly right so it is it is a bridge between two systems okay so like for for Aidan's example of a computer screen well it's called an interface because it is a bridge between two systems one of the two systems it is your computer or your phone and the person yeah so the screen is an interface what about a car interface what is an interface in the car well the steering wheel is an interface because the steering wheel is the bridge between the car and and the driver I want to draw do an app but I want to do a weather I want to do a weather predicting well imagine if you had to do whether predicting up right now you'd have to design all your all your functions and then for some health some somehow you're going to have to be able to sense the weather right but you're never ever going to be able to sense the weather with your app because you there are so many resources out there that you need in order to sense the whether you need weather balloons you need satellites you need barometers you need temperatures and you need so many things to detect the weather right but if you might want to make a weather predicting app how can you do it it's not impossible you can do it by accessing the weather Bureau's API why would the weather bureau want to make their API available for you well it's because they want people to use their information to make apps ok because the weather bureau doesn't make apps themselves the weather bureau is not going to make an app that produce the weather the weather bureau is there to just predict the weather and tell people by the way it's going to rain today it's going to be a top of 26 degrees and then that's what they're good at they go good at saying we're predicting the weather but they're not good at programming they're not going to be good at making the app so they make their information available to you to other developers through something called an API and now you should be able to test by getting the temperature of any city around the world so we go file save and then we go run run module so hello well city name and go Sydney as enter whoa something's not right oh yeah I need to go turn it into a string I'm printing you now of course because it's coming back as a number function [Music] Sydnee temperature is two hundred ninety seven point two seven degrees that's what you should receive and if it's working for you you should also get 287 degrees but would someone like to raise their hand and tell me why it's saying it's 287 degrees Aidan its Fahrenheit or kelvins very good excellent it's in Kelvin all right so it's calculated from absolute zero okay well done you didn't