REST API Basics
Treehouse
Course Summary
Many of the APIs you'll encounter on the Web use an underlying design idea known as REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer. Understanding what and how a REST API provides will help you build better and stronger APIs for your users.
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Course Description
About this Course Many of the APIs you'll encounter on the Web use an underlying design idea known as REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer. Understanding what and how a REST API provides will help you build better and stronger APIs for your users. What you'll learn
- REST Concepts
- URI Design
- Other API Concerns
About the Teacher
Besides teaching Python at Treehouse, Kenneth Love is a husband & father. He created a few popular Python libraries, worked at most levels of the web stack, & was the Creative Director of a newspaper. He likes board games, whiskey, activism, & dry humor.
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Course Syllabus
Getting the REST You Need
The RESTful API design pattern is a common, useful, and real world design pattern for turning your web app into a useful tool for building mobile apps, bots, desktop and server scripts, and more. Let's talk about what REST is, the building blocks and terminology of REST, and how you'll be using REST here at Treehouse. 6 steps- Introduction 2:32
- Endpoints 3:08
- Requests 3:22
- Responses 3:07
- Security 2:49
- Review: REST API Basics 6 questions
This course is listed under
Open Source
, Cloud Computing
, Development & Implementations
, Data & Information Management
, Networks & IT Infrastructure
, Operating Systems
and IT Security & Architecture
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