Introduction to the Course

Get an overview of the course, its prerequisites, and its intended audience.

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Technology has evolved quickly everything around us. It has turned this huge world into an interconnected space where we can know what’s happening on the other side of the globe. Everything is changing rapidly and staying up to date is now more essential than ever. Keeping up with current global news is one way to understand what shapes the world around us.

What’s an API?

An API is a software gateway that allows different software components to communicate with each other. It helps expose the capabilities of an application to the outer world, allowing for programmatic access to the application’s data. Consider the case of an application service like a news application that provides breaking news and news articles. Building and exposing an API for this service will allow others to programmatically fetch the data this service offers, such as accessing information about top business headlines in the US.

Many popular services like YouTube, Reddit, and Google Maps also provide APIs for extended use cases. These services allow authorized clients to access their resources.

Prerequisites

This course requires a basic understanding of APIs, JavaScript, and React.

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Intended audience

This course is intended for anyone who wants to learn how to integrate the News API into their application. Perhaps you are:

  1. A student who is new to the world of APIs and wants to understand their basic usage.

  2. A professional who has extensive experience with other similar APIs and now wants to explore the News API.