Technical Writing- How to Write API Software Documentation

Technical Writing: How to Write API Software Documentation, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.37, with 53 lectures, based on 981 reviews, and has 13673 subscribers.

You will learn about What is API? What is API documentation? Which steps to follow to create API documentation? How to use Swagger UI to write API documentation? How to use Postman to check the functionality provided with an API How to put your API documentation together in a GitHub wiki page! This course is ideal for individuals who are Technical Writers or Information Developers or Software Developers or UX Writers It is particularly useful for Technical Writers or Information Developers or Software Developers or UX Writers.

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Summary

Title: Technical Writing: How to Write API Software Documentation

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.37

Number of Lectures: 53

Number of Published Lectures: 53

Number of Curriculum Items: 53

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 53

Original Price: $64.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

What is API?

What is API documentation?

Which steps to follow to create API documentation?

How to use Swagger UI to write API documentation?

How to use Postman to check the functionality provided with an API

How to put your API documentation together in a GitHub wiki page!

Who Should Attend

Technical Writers

Information Developers

Software Developers

UX Writers

Target Audiences

Technical Writers

Information Developers

Software Developers

UX Writers

Are you a technical writer who must write API software documentation? Do you wonder what you need to prepare and deliver to have high-quality API documentation and do not know where to start?

If yes, then this course is for you!

For Technical Writers, by Technical Writers: Navigate the world of API software documentation effortlessly with our hands-on course designed for aspiring technical writers.

Global Impact: Trusted by universities across Europe and top software companies for onboarding new technical writers. Join a community shaping the future of technical writing.

Simplified Learning: Technical writing made easy! No programming jargon—just straightforward explanations to help you understand API and API documentation.

Practical Steps: Unlock our unique framework, guiding you through the process of preparing and delivering high-quality API documentation. From concept to creation, we’ve got you covered.

Tools of the Trade: Master Swagger UI for automatic documentation generation and learn Postman to validate API functionality. Bring it all together on a GitHub wiki page with confidence.

Transform into a proficient API documentation writer:

Acquire practical skills for your writer’s portfolio.

Impress managers and collaborate seamlessly with developers.

Elevate your technical writing career.

API stands for Application Programming Interface. An interface is a software abstraction, which allows two software applications to communicate with each other seamlessly.

There are two roles you need to consider when you write documentation about an API:

1. The role of the developer who created the API. This developer needs to provide information about the way the API is supposed to work; what requests can it receive and what responses does is provide.

2. The role of the developer who uses the API. This developer needs to read through the API documentation to understand the ways to connect to the API, the requests that he or she can send to the API, and the responses that the API shall return for these requests.

In this course, you will learn:

What is API and API documentation – explained in a way so that you can understand. No special programming knowledge is required! 

The steps you need to follow to prepare and provide documentation about your API – our unique framework to make sure you have steps to follow while preparing the API documentation.

How to use Swagger UI to write and generate API documentation automatically.

How to use Postman to check the functionality provided with an API, and

How to put it all together on a GitHub wiki page!

Transform into a proficient API documentation writer with our course!

Acquire hands-on skills to craft compelling API documentation, a valuable addition to your writer’s portfolio.

Impress not only your manager but also developers with your newfound ability to confidently create documentation for diverse software development projects.

Elevate your technical writing career by enrolling today! Try it now, and see how easy it is to write API documentation, once you know which are the basic steps to follow!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Slides Used in This Section

Lecture 3: What will you learn?

Lecture 4: What is an API?

Lecture 5: Benefits from using an API

Lecture 6: How does an API work?

Lecture 7: Who creates API and API documentation?

Lecture 8: What is an API documentation?

Lecture 9: Types of APIs

Lecture 10: Who reads API documentation?

Lecture 11: API documentation – examples

Lecture 12: API documentation framework

Lecture 13: API documentation – structure

Lecture 14: Step 1

Lecture 15: Step 2

Lecture 16: Step 3

Lecture 17: Testing an API call

Chapter 2: Writing API Documentation Using Swagger UI

Lecture 1: Writing API documentation using Swagger UI

Lecture 2: Slides Used in This Section

Lecture 3: Agenda

Lecture 4: What is Swagger?

Lecture 5: Benefits from using Swagger for writing API documentation

Lecture 6: Step 1: create new API

Lecture 7: Demo

Lecture 8: Step 2: create the API introductory page

Lecture 9: Step 2.1: edit the API info

Lecture 10: Sample introductory info

Lecture 11: Demo

Lecture 12: Step 2.2: edit the API contacts and links to further documentation

Lecture 13: Sample contacts and documentation link

Lecture 14: Step 3: define the tags of your API

Lecture 15: Step 4: define the API operations and paths

Lecture 16: Sample API operation and path

Lecture 17: Demo

Lecture 18: Step 5: document the API parameters

Lecture 19: Sample parameters

Lecture 20: Step 6: document the API responses

Lecture 21: Sample response

Lecture 22: Step 7: export the API documentation

Chapter 3: Writing API Documentation Using Postman and GitHub Wiki Pages

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: What will you learn in this section?

Lecture 3: Tools we will use

Lecture 4: Whats the story?

Lecture 5: What is Postman?

Lecture 6: Downloading and getting to know Postman

Lecture 7: Using Postman, document the usage of the Stripe API

Lecture 8: Step 1

Lecture 9: Step 2 – part 1

Lecture 10: Step 2 – part 2

Lecture 11: Step 3

Lecture 12: Step 4

Lecture 13: Step 5

Chapter 4: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: A Recap

Instructors

JPDocu School of Technical Writing
WE TEACH SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION AND DITA! 50K+ Students!

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2 stars: 21 votes

3 stars: 145 votes

4 stars: 357 votes

5 stars: 442 votes

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