Work through this tutorial on VSCode and Node.js. You are welcome to use your preferred editor instead of VSCode.
Create a folder named lab1 on your computer. Open the folder in VS Code. Copy the readfile_sync.js sample program from the class examples into that folder and review the code. Use the node command to run it. Provide the filename of a text file as a command line argument; it should display the contents of the file.
The City of Dallas provides a web service that allows you to retrieve a list of the city council voting records:
https://www.dallasopendata.com/resource/ts5d-gdq6
Download the data set via this URL:
https://www.dallasopendata.com/resource/ts5d-gdq6.csv
Review the data in a text editor. As is typical in a comma-delimited data file, the first row contains field names.
Read about the Node.js module csv-string. It parses comma-delimited files. It is not a part of the core Node.js library; you must use the npm command to install it into your lab1 folder (see the Installation section of the csv-string documentation). When you install it, a node_modules folder should be created in your lab1 folder, and you should see the csv-string module inside. (You can ignore npm warnings about a missing package.json file.)
Rename readfile_sync.js to lab1.js. Add a require statement to the top to import the module (review the module documentation for an example if you need help). Alter the program so that it displays a list of all of the values in the date, voter_name and vote fields for those records where the agenda_item_number value is ‘1’. Use the parse() function in the csv-string module to assist with parsing the data. The output should be formatted as follows:
2020-11-17 - Jaime Resendez - YES
2020-11-17 - Adam Medrano - NO
Using a word processor, write a brief lab report indicating what you completed successfully, as well as what (if anything) isn’t working properly. Include a screen shot of the output of your program and a listing of your program. Your report should start with a cover sheet with your name, the assignment title, date, course number. Generate a pdf named report.pdf, and submit via Canvas.