Coding with Indian language API resources when you are not a professional coder

1. Presentation title
Date
Oxford Dictionaries API
Urdu with the Oxford
Dictionaries API
Coding when you are not a professional coder

2. Agenda
The app and the bot
Demo
1.0
Technical journey
Difficulties faced, solutions found
2.0
I wish I knew about this…
… before I started
3.0
Q & A
Oxford Dictionaries API

3. Demo: The app and the bot
SHOW AND TELL
Urdu-to-English web app (source code at https://github.com/AninditaBasu/urdu2en-oxford-dict)
Oxford Dictionaries API

4. Demo: The app and the bot
SHOW
_alfaaz_ Twitter bot (in action at https://twitter.com/_alfaaz_)
Oxford Dictionaries API

5. Demo: The app and the bot
SHOW
_alfaaz_ Twitter bot (in action at https://twitter.com/_alfaaz_)
Oxford Dictionaries API
Code is at https://github.com/AninditaBasu/_alfaaz_

6. Technical journey
DIFFICULTIES FACED, SOLUTIONS FOUND
• The JSON object
• The language pairs
Oxford Dictionaries API

7. Technical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found
THE JSON OBJECT
Oxford Dictionaries API

8. Technical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found
THE JSON OBJECT
Oxford Dictionaries API

9. Technical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found
THE JSON OBJECT
Oxford Dictionaries API

10. THE LANGUAGE PAIRS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

11. THE LANGUAGE PAIRS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

12. THE LANGUAGE PAIRS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

13. THE LANGUAGE PAIRS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

14. THE LANGUAGE PAIRS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found
News flash!!
Gujarati and Tamil are now supported.

15. I wish I knew about this…
GOTCHA!
Oxford Dictionaries API
• The number of meanings
• The non-Roman fonts

16. THE NUMBER OF MEANINGS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

17. THE NUMBER OF MEANINGS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

18. THE NON-ROMAN FONTS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

19. THE NON-ROMAN FONTS
Oxford Dictionaries APITechnical journey: Difficulties faced, solutions found

20. Q & A
THANK YOU!
Oxford Dictionaries API
• API documentation: https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/documentation
• Discussion forum: https://forum.oxforddictionaries.com/api/
• Tweets: https://twitter.com/OxfordWordsAPI