API and API Design with Python

Python Fundamentals for APIs

• Lecture: Practical Application of Lists
• Lecture + Lab: Lists
• Lecture: Practical Application of Dict
• Lecture + Lab: Dictionaries
• Challenge: List and Dict Modeling
• Lecture + Lab: Your First API Request
• Lecture: Control Flow and Functions (NEW-LECTURE)
• Lecture + Lab: Modules, Libraries, and Exception Handling

Consuming APIs

• Lecture: Python Data sets vs JSON
• Lecture + Lab: Python Data to JSON file
• Lecture + Lab: requests library - RESTful GET and JSON parsing
• Lecture + Lab: requests library - Open APIs
• Lecture + Lab: requests library - GET vs POST to REST APIs
• Lecture + Lab: Secure API Requests with the requests library

Building RESTful APIs

• Lecture: Intro to Flask
• Lecture + Lab: Building APIs with Python
• Lecture: Learning sqlite3
• Lecture + Lab: Tracking API Data with sqlite3
• Lecture + Lab: Tracking Inventory with sqlite3

Securing and Managing APIs

• Lecture + Lab: APIs and Dev Keys
• Lecture + Lab: RESTful APIs and Dev Keys
• Lecture + Lab: Flask Sessions
• Lecture + Lab: Flask Uploading and Downloading Files
• Lecture + Lab: Securing Your API

Production Readiness

• Lecture + Lab: Running Flask in a Docker Container
• Lecture + Lab: Flask and waitress
• Lecture + Lab: Automating Deployment with CI/CD

Advanced and Optional Topics

• Lecture + Lab: Introduction to FastAPI
• Lecture + Lab: Asynchronous API Requests with asyncio
• Lecture + Lab: Using Swagger for API Documentation
• Lecture + Lab: Using Jinja2 for Dynamic Content