{"id":50322,"date":"2025-10-13T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50322"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:40:48","slug":"computer-science-json-part-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-json-part-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science: json, part zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring computer science, data structures come up. The tutor mentions json.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\njson stands for JavaScript object notation. It refers to a format for storing data. json essentially follows the concept of an associative array (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-array-vs-associative-array\/\">my post here<\/a>). In particular, a json file may be a comma-separated list of data pairs. The specific format of each pair is &#8220;attribute&#8221;: value. This pair structure is often referred to as &#8220;key&#8221;: value, with the attributes being thought of as keys.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe json files I&#8217;ve seen start and end with braces. The following could be the contents of a valid json file:<\/p>\n<p>{&#8220;age&#8221;: 149, &#8220;planet&#8221;: &#8220;Mars&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Learn_web_development\/Core\/Scripting\/JSON\">mozilla.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsonlint.com\/\">jsonlint.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring computer science, data structures come up. The tutor mentions json. The following is my understanding. json stands for JavaScript object notation. It refers to a format for storing data. json essentially follows the concept of an associative array (see &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-json-part-zero\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer science: json, part zero<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,3786],"tags":[3819,3820],"class_list":["post-50322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-web-wordpress-coding-etc","tag-data-formats","tag-object-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50322"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50334,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions\/50334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}