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API Development (Coursera)

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API Development (Coursera)

Learn how to access and create web APIs. This course is designed for learners who have experience with JavaScript. The modules in this course cover accessing web APIs and creating simple web servers.

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To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course.
Course Learning Objectives:

  • API Protocols
  • HTTP Servers
  • Authentication

Course 4 of 6 in the Software Engineering Tools and Practices Specialization.

What You Will Learn

  • Accessing web APIs
  • Creating a simple web server
  • Authentication.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
API Protocols
Welcome to Week 1 of Software Engineering: API Development. This course will cover the basic principles of Web API Development.

WEEK 2
HTTP Servers
Welcome to Week 2 of Software Engineering: API Development. This course will cover the basic principles of Web API Development.

WEEK 3
Best Practices for Web APIs
Welcome to Week 3 of Software Engineering: API Development. This course will cover the basic principles of Web API Development.

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