Certificate Program in API Writing

Start date:

October 5, 2020

Duration:

14 hours

Weekdays:

9:30 am- 10:30 am

Course Detail

  • What is an API?
  • Who uses API documentation?
  • What do they want?
  • Types of API writing
  • Why is there a need for API writing?
  • Essential skills for an API writer
  • Different types of API documents
  • Writing API documentation
  • What content goes into an API document?
  • Common structures for API documents
  • Automatically generated content
  • Manually written content
  • Writing the content
  • Code samples
  • Design patterns in the API documentation
  • Standards and emerging conventions
  • Designing the content to meet the audience’s needs
  • Authoring tools
  • Creating API content
  • API specification tools
  • Publishing the content
  • Managing the content
  • Automation tools
  • Mixing automatically generated content with hand-crafted content
  • Editing and reviewing content
  • Maintaining the documentation and version control
  • Integrating it with your existing documentation workflow
  • Testing APIs
  • Building a documentation team
  • Managing an API documentation project
  • Postman + SwaggerHub or Stoplight
  • Open API 3.0
  • Introduction to JIRA
  • How to use JIRA as a ticketing tool.
  • How to create sub-task
  • JIRA workflow and reports
  • JIRA dashboard tutorial
  • Understanding the fundamentals
  • Creating the repository
  • Cloning the repository
  • Adding new files
  • Updating Git configuration
  • Create branches and perform operations