Instructors Are Hearing About JSON

To create instructional materials for classes instructors are hearing more about calling up and using resources from remote servers.

The language Javascript Object Notation ( JSON ) is a light weight alternative to XML used for sharing information between two different operating systems. JSON is used by a growing number of popular services. JSON is a text format that makes it easy to exchange data between devices. JSON owes it's origin and is based on the way javascript objects are written. JSON is related to javascript but it is not exactly the same as javascript

While JSON originated with the javascript programming language it is available in a wide variety of languages. See http://json.org/ for a list of languages that use JSON.

JSON is popular and is used by Twitter to output their stream. JSON is the best format to use when working with data-interchange in javascript.