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APIs in Action: Build API-Based Applications
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APIs in Action: Build API-Based Applications

Learn API Basics, Develop 3 API-Based Applications, Understand HTTP, XMLHttpRequest, JSON and XML Basics!
Last updated 10/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand what an API is
  • Learn how to make the best use of APIs
  • Develop API-Based applications
  • Use XMLHttpRequest object in JavaScript and jQuery

Course content

4 sections24 lectures2h 58m total length
  • Applications You are Going to Develop3:15

    Develop api based applications from scratch using json data and request-response workflows, including a currency converter, language detector, and world clock.

  • What is an API?3:14

    See how an API acts as an interface, a middleman that simplifies tasks by accepting requests and returning data in usable formats.

  • API: Real-World Comparison2:37
  • APIs in Action3:52

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript helpful

Description

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are gaining popularity nowadays among businesses in different industries. APIs allow us to create applications that access the features or data of an operating system or application. This course "APIs in Action: Build API-Based Applications" helps you understand the basics of API and also to make use of existing APIs to develop your own applications from scratch.

By completing this course, you will understand basic AJAX concepts, JSON and XML processing and also web application development. You will learn how to use XMLHttpRequest object in JavaScript as well as jQuery.

The applications you are going to develop as part of this course are

  1. Currency Converter

  2. Language Detector

  3. World Clock

Who this course is for:

  • Web developers
  • People interested to learn about APIs
  • People who want to develop applications using free APIs