Hello everyone and welcome to this new section in this section.
We are going to build our first API with Django.
We're going to cover all the most important topics that are relevant to understand the rest api really
work such as The Age TDB protocol which is the foundation of data communication for them that in the
web the knowledge and skills that you will acquire in this unit will then allow you to understand how
to effectively use Django rest framework and Eugene yes later on in the next sections giving you a framework
to properly understand what is going on.
As we dive in more complicated concepts so the objectives for the web API is section are the following.
First of all understand the concepts of API web API and arrest familiarity with the most important H
TTP methods start to codes and with the chase on file format you will learn how to use the requests
module to interact with web API is using Python and you will know how to build simple web API is with
pure Django and when I say pure Django I mean without the support of a Django rest framework that will
call varying the great detail in the following sections instant to make your learning experience as
easy and enjoyable as possible.
This section is divided in different lessons so we have API is Jason and end points in the first lesson
that we're going to talk about the rest ATP and status codes in the second one.
Then as we've mentioned we have a lesson that's all about the requests module and afterwards we're gonna
write our first Django API.
The last one is divided in two parts so that in the first part of the lecture we can have also a short
Django refresher.
This will allow us to make a truthful comparison or let's say with what we are going to discuss in the
second part.
Then by the end of the section we're going to have a competency assessment which means that I'm going
to give you a project as more project and you will have to develop on your own and these will of course
allow you to test and work on your own with all the new skills that you're going to acquire and in the
very last lesson I'm going to show you one of the possible solutions to the project and I'm going to
give you.
So you're ready.
Let's get started.