Homework 1

[abshughes]

Hi Tom,
Below is my review of your homework 1.

You did a great job, the program runs and shows what it is supposed to show.
I have a few comments on some parts, which could be done a bit differently.

1. The assignment mentions to use json.loads(), instead of json.load()
   The difference between them is that json.load() takes a string argument and json.loads() takes file as an object. The documentation on json.loads() is here
   https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/json.html#json.loads
2. You used parse to parse the data, and it worked great.
   However, we were advised to use datetime.datetime.strftime function to convert the string
   dates = datetime.datetime.strptime(i, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
   the documentation is here
   https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html?highlight=datetime.strptime#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
3. You didn't close the connection to sqlite3: conn.close() and the files itself json_data.close()
   Every time you close the object, you discard memory buffer, what is nothing in this exercise but might be more significant after.

Hope these comments help!
Anna