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Vitamin 6: APIs and Postman

Introduction​

In this vitamin, you will learn what an API looks like and how to use them using the industry-standard tool Postman.

Learning Objectives​

  • What is an API?
  • How do you use an API?
  • What does an API

Question 0: Postman Lesson​

Click this link to sign up for the Postman Student Program. Use your @berkeley.edu email. If you do not use the exact link above and your @berkeley.edu email, we will not be able to verify that you completed the program.

After you sign up, you will recieve a link to Postman academy. Complete the Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert lesson. You may have to fill out the sign up form once more.

Submission​

Once you complete the course you will receive a badge that you can access at a URL that looks like https://api.badgr.io/public/assertions/s98djFX1R8a2gDYmsROP2A.

Create a file called badge.txt and paste the URL into that file. Upload this file to Gradescope. The autograder will verify that the badge was completed and belongs to your @berkeley.edu email.