Module 16 : Working with Data Files

• Topics
• Resources
• In-Class Activities

Topics

• Advanced String Processing
• Data Files

New processing syntax:

• split() function
• splitTokens() function
• join() function
• trim() function
• The String class's substring() function

• loadStrings() function
• loadTable() function (often used to load CSV files)
• saveStrings() function

• loadXML() function
• parseXML() function
• XML class


• loadJSONArray() function
• parseJSONArray() function
• loadJSONObject() function
• parseJSONObject() function
• JSONArray class
• JSONObject class

Resources

• Much of Chapter 12 of the Reas/Fry text

• processing.org tutorial on Data

• Watch Daniel Shiffman Video 18.0, Splits and Join (10 minutes)
  (available at learningprocessing.com and YouTube)

• Watch Daniel Shiffman Video 18.1, loadStrings() function (14 minutes)
  (available at learningprocessing.com and YouTube)

• (Optional) Watch Daniel Shiffman Video 18.2, case study for word counting function (20 minutes)
  NOTE: This relies on an additional data structure known as a "dictionary"
  (available at learningprocessing.com and YouTube)

• Watch Daniel Shiffman Video 18.3, Tabular Data (17 minutes)
  (available at learningprocessing.com and YouTube)

• (Optional) Watch Daniel Shiffman Video 18.4, XML and JSON data formats (18 minutes)
  (available at learningprocessing.com and YouTube)

In-Class Activities

As a hands-on activity for the day, we want consider a speed-reading case study.