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A First Look at APIs

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Have you ever wondered how companies are able to obtain their weather data? Do all of them have their own satellites in space just to tell their users the temperature of the day? Usually these companies will subscribe to a service provider. This service provider will be the only one collecting all the information and providing it to developers through an Application Programming Interface (API).

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

  1. Describe what an API is
  2. Use an API to get specific information based on a specified parameters
  3. Describe an endpoint and its use case

Tutorial Steps

Total steps: 6

  • Step 1: Introduction to API
  • Step 2: Creating an Account with Open Weather Map API
  • Step 3: Obtaining API Keys
  • Step 4: Obtaining Your Location
  • Step 5: API Call
  • Step 6: Testing What You Learnt
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