Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
0 Hour(s) 58 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Ethan Ballinger
Rating
Course Overview
A simplified guide to understanding RESTful API design
RESTful APIs are part of our everyday life and most may not even know it. Because most of the design and implementation of these APIs is left up to developers and architects, there are a wide array of opinions and ideas on how things should work. This can create a good deal of confusion.
Writing Beautiful RESTful APIs provides a fundamental overview of REST, best practices for design, and discusses several advanced topics like pagination, search, and authentication.
This course is meant for beginners to API design, but it is also a good refresher for those who are familiar to API design or are hoping to gain a deeper understanding of advanced topics.
By the end of the course, you will understand the fundamentals of REST and you'll be able to start designing your APIs to be "beautiful APIs".
Course Content
- 3 section(s)
- 10 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Overview
- Section 2 Best Practices
- Section 3 Advanced Topics
What You’ll Learn
- Know a basic understanding of how RESTful APIs work
- Know best practices for designing a set of RESTful APIs
- Know how to leverage the HTTP protocol for RESTful APIs
- Know how to deal with advanced concepts like pagination, search, and authentication and how they pertain to RESTful APIs
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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DDetlev Stieghorst
The length (1 hour) should have tipped me off. But I did not expect to get just a couple of videos with Powerpoint presentations. What a about some example sessions with a API testing tool like Postman? Or other ways to show APIs in real life situations.
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PPatsy Price
Great comprehensive overview of RESTful apis. I needed a refresher for an upcoming job interview. This was the perfect overview to get me ready. Thank you!
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RRuss Bird
This is a good intro to the fundamentals of RESTful APIs but doesn't actually provide too much info on how to write an API. There are best practices and good definitions but I'm no closer to writing an API now than before.
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LLucas Abbade
This course is a pretty good introduction to REST APIs if you've never done one. It presents all the basics in a short and easy way. The instructor could, however, add more in-depth content, and show practical examples of the various subjects to make things more clear.
