JSON, AJAX and REST APIs
Integrate browser and server applications through structured JSON, HTTP contracts, asynchronous requests, and resilient error handling.
- Level
- intermediate
- Duration
- 40 hours
- Access
- free
- Languages
- English
Price and billing
- Price
- Free
- Billing basis
- Not applicable
Learning outcomes
- Represent, validate, serialize, and parse application data without losing meaning.
- Design a predictable resource contract using HTTP methods, status codes, and representations.
- Send requests, inspect responses, and update the interface from remote data.
- Coordinate asynchronous work with explicit sequencing, concurrency, and failure handling.
- Implement create, read, update, and delete workflows with consistent client state.
- Handle untrusted data, authentication boundaries, rate limits, and recoverable failures safely.
- Verify API consumers and producers with deterministic fixtures and contract evidence.
- Deliver an end-to-end API-backed workflow with security, observability, and recovery behavior.
Requirements
- Prior knowledge
- Basic programming experience is recommended.
- Devices
- A computer with a modern web browser is recommended for practical work.
- Software
- A modern browser with JavaScript enabled; coding tools run inside the course.
- Equipment
- No additional physical equipment is required unless a course activity explicitly states otherwise.
- Connectivity
- Internet access is required to load course content, save progress, and submit work.
- A modern browser and reliable internet connection
- Time for four to six hours of practice per week
- Completion of each server-scored unit assessment in order
Curriculum
8 units
Assessments and completion
Each of the eight units includes a server-scored assessment. Learners must score at least 70% to pass a unit; up to three attempts are allowed per assessment.
Access period
- Duration
- No fixed expiry
- Access starts
- Enrollment
Certificate
- Offer
- No certificate is currently offered.
- Issuer
- Not applicable.
- Fee policy
- No certificate
- Verification
- Not advertised.