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Paul Yorde
10,497 PointsWhat are some popular resources for gaining an understanding of using API's?
Firstly, I should say that I have used API's and have a basic understanding of them. However, I would like to read more about them to gain a better understanding of how to work with asynchronous request and responses. Essentially, I am interested in the URL aspect of API's. I am not looking for any language specifics, just a general understanding.
Thanks ~
4 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherPaul:
Best Practices for API design
Language Information
JavaScript Synchronous and asynchronous requests
jQuery API Documentation
Hopefully that will get you started in the right direction.
Happy coding,
Ken
Kevin Haube
12,265 PointsjQuery is a good place to start learning API skills. It's one of the most popular libraries for JavaScript!
Michael Randall
Courses Plus Student 10,643 PointsLast.fm has a decent API Library/documentation and if you like working with music it is pretty good. I took a udacity course, "Intro to Data Science" and within the first 1/3 of the coursework they cover using Last.fm's APIs but using python. Overall it was a great course.
Paul Yorde
10,497 PointsThose are all best answers, thanks!