Week 8 of 12

HTTP, JSON, and reading other peoples APIs

Internalize how the web actually talks; consume a real public REST API from Python without breaking on errors.

What you ship by Sunday

Public repo weather-now, a Python CLI taking a city name, hitting Open-Meteo, parsing JSON, handling 4xx/5xx, printing a formatted forecast, with a unit test using a mocked response.

This week is a coach-off micro-checkpoint.

Reproduce the prior week artifact from a blank file. No copy-pasting, no AI assist, no opening last week's repo. The coach is unavailable on this page. The point is to prove the muscle memory is in your hands, not in the chat window.