Slithering over the web with Python

For various reasons, many programs that students are asked
to write in introductory computer science courses 
deal with programs that seem dated and typically deal with 
small sets of data.  Writing programs that deal with real
data in a meaningful and useful way motivates students and
highlights some benefits of computer science:  that computers
can be used to solve real problems.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how to easily provide
tools for students to access "real world data" via simple
Python commands, discuss good sources of data, and
work through several small examples that can be generalized 
for either a first or second course in secondary
school computer sciene.