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Learn with Mr MXF

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Workflows

Everything is a software nowadays and a workflow is simply a way to join humans and software and hardware together to achieve a result.

Try the workflow page to try out some workflows for free!

workflow

Today’s exercise is in 2 parts with stretch goals

Workflow exercise

  1. Choose a buddy - this is much better done in groups of 2 or 3
  2. Choose an engine (links below) that’s not in use and log into it
  3. Work through the intro tab
  4. Get the API key for OpenWeatherMap from Bruce (or sign up for your own account)
  5. Work with your body to craft a weather query for your town
    1. You can start with a clean tab if you’re confident
    2. You can also use the incomplete weather tab if you need a bit more help
    3. drop a pin on google maps to get the lat/long of a location
    4. Use that data with the weather query to get the weather data
  6. Get the weather information back as a json - attach a green debug node to see the results
  7. Use data from the JSON to find an appropriate image by searching google / unsplash / bing etc.

    1. you might have to turn some json fields into a sentence e.g.