Next: Build a Wikipedia Viewer

Next Free Code Camp assignment is "Build a Wikipedia Viewer." The model has a form where a user can type a word and have the app return a nicely formatted list of Wikipedia articles.

Why can I not find "APIs for Beginners" anywhere? It's one of those secrets, like how to use GitHub fluently, that everyone already knows... Even my trusty W3Schools (which FFCamp scorns as too babyish a resource) just glosses it over with a little hand-waving (W3Schools JQuery AJAX Intro).

Trying... Maybe I should try going back to Codecademy while I wait for FFCamp to (eventually) backfill the missing lessons.

• First, Zapier: An Introduction to APIs. "If you are a non-technical person, you should feel right at home with the lesson structure." OK, yes, that was a nice soothing read.
• Codecademy: YouTube API course - at least this one seems to have an intro module called "How to Use APIs with Javascript" as Part 1, and "Searching for YouTube videos" only as Part 2. "How to Use APIs" serves as a nice interactive quiz on the Zapier article.



Zapier explains

• W3S Ajax Tutorial might help explain Codecademy lesson :P
• Also W3S XMLHttpRequest Object, JSON tutorial.

So much reading, so little coding! Sigh.

Codecademy How to Use APIs with Javascript: completed.
Out of time for today.