Section 1.1 About BRIDGES
BRIDGES is an API/Toolkit for providing easy-to-use interfaces to real-world data and internet-based information systems, that are exciting and engaging, such as social network data (Reddit), entertainment (movies, songs), encyclopaedia type systems (Wikipedia, Gutenberg books), scientific/engineering (USGIS Earthquakes) or geographic (city, county, countries, OpenStreet Map, Elevation), entertainment repositories (IMDB, GeniusAPI) data. The BRIDGES toolkit provides a set of classes in C++, Java and Python, to support early CS courses, such CS1/CS2 and Data Structures/Algorithm Analysis. See the BRIDGES home page for examples and a short video on an introduction to BRIDGES.
Bridges home page 1 How does Bridges help:
- Provides easy-to-use interfaces to exciting, engaging real-world data (social networks, scientific data, etc), to make it possible for their use in freshmen/sophomore level CS courses
- Makes it easy to visualize course assignments in a CS1, CS2, data structures, or algorithm courses
- Is carefully designed to augment the student experience in routine introductory courses in Computer Science
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https://bridgesuncc.github.io/
