Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course

Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.46, with 22 lectures, based on 11441 reviews, and has 40352 subscribers.

You will learn about What APIs are How APIs work What a RESTful API is What JSON is How computers talk to each other CRUD Operations The 5 main request methods (GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, DELETE) HTTP status codes How to understand APIs as if they were real people HTTP Requests and Responses This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate Web Developers OR Eager Junior Web Developers or Non-coders who want to learn about inter-computer communications or This course is NOT for junior developers who are brand new to coding (not yet, anyway!) or This course is NOT for senior developers who already have knowledge about APIs and how they work It is particularly useful for Intermediate Web Developers OR Eager Junior Web Developers or Non-coders who want to learn about inter-computer communications or This course is NOT for junior developers who are brand new to coding (not yet, anyway!) or This course is NOT for senior developers who already have knowledge about APIs and how they work.

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Summary

Title: Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.46

Number of Lectures: 22

Number of Published Lectures: 22

Number of Curriculum Items: 22

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 22

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

What APIs are

How APIs work

What a RESTful API is

What JSON is

How computers talk to each other

CRUD Operations

The 5 main request methods (GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, DELETE)

HTTP status codes

How to understand APIs as if they were real people

HTTP Requests and Responses

Who Should Attend

Intermediate Web Developers OR Eager Junior Web Developers

Non-coders who want to learn about inter-computer communications

This course is NOT for junior developers who are brand new to coding (not yet, anyway!)

This course is NOT for senior developers who already have knowledge about APIs and how they work

Target Audiences

Intermediate Web Developers OR Eager Junior Web Developers

Non-coders who want to learn about inter-computer communications

This course is NOT for junior developers who are brand new to coding (not yet, anyway!)

This course is NOT for senior developers who already have knowledge about APIs and how they work

In this course you will learn about APIs and RESTful APIs, and how they work. There is no coding in this course.

By the end of this course you will completely understand how APIs work, and how computers talk to each other. You’ll also be familiar with RESTful APIs which make use of the HTTP protocol. If that sounded confusing, scary, or overly technical 鈥?it’s not 鈥?it’s just a fancy way of saying “it uses the internet”.

The goal of this course is to help you understand APIs and RESTful APIs without needing to write any code. So next time someone says “API” you will know exactly what they are talking about (and you’ll also know it’s not really that technical or fancy, but that’ll be our secret 馃槈

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This course is designed to remove the sense of overwhelm and “scariness” when we start to talk about APIs. APIs and RESTful APIs come across as difficult or advanced subjects, but really it’s just two computers talking to each other and exchanging commands and data. No different than when your friend sends you a text message, and you text back.

I’ll give you several easy to remember metaphors so APIs don’t feel scary or overwhelming, too.

APIs can be written and used by most programming languages, so we’re not writing any code, although I do provide a live JavaScript demo.

All the slides will be provided for you, as well as reference material for when you’ve graduated this course and you’re ready to take on the world of APIs.

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This course is only 45 minutes, but I promise you that’s all the time you’ll need 鈥?not because I’m a good teacher, but because APIs are seriously that simple once someone takes the time to explain them.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What is an API?

Lecture 3: Google Slides

Chapter 2: Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs

Lecture 1: The simplest way to think about an API (the metaphor)

Lecture 2: A real life use case

Lecture 3: What programming languages can we use?

Lecture 4: Introduction to RESTful APIs

Lecture 5: Introduction to JSON

Lecture 6: Using SWAPI Notes

Lecture 7: A real JavaScript API example

Lecture 8: GET requests

Lecture 9: POST requests

Lecture 10: DELETE requests

Lecture 11: PUT/PATCH requests

Lecture 12: Consuming APIs (how to use them)

Lecture 13: Requests and responses

Lecture 14: Common status codes

Lecture 15: API security

Chapter 3: Summary

Lecture 1: Summary

Lecture 2: Resources

Lecture 3: REST API Cheat Sheet

Lecture 4: Questions, Feedback, and Support

Instructors

Kalob Taulien
Web developer and coding instructor

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