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Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers 

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Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers
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Overview

API Documentation1: Teaches technical writers how to document structured data. No programming experience required

Duration

1 hour

Total fee

1,600

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers
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Highlights

  • Earn a Certificate of completion from Udemy
  • Get a 30 days money back guarantee on the course
  • Get full lifetime access of the course material
  • Learn from 4 articles and 8 downloadable resources
  • Get access to four hands-on exercises and 5 quizzes
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Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For technical writers with experience writing end-user documentation and how want to learn how to write API documentation
What are the course deliverables?
  • Read and understand structured data in JSON and XML formats
  • Write documentation for JSON and XML files, for API documentation or other types of documentation
  • Understand how to edit JSON and XML for tools that generate documentation
More about this course
  • This is the first in a series of courses for technical writers who want to learn how to write API documentation
  • This course teaches how to document structured data, focusing on the two most popular structured data formats: JSON and XML
  • APIs (Application Program Interfaces) define how software systems talk to each other, and API documentation is a rapidly growing field
  • There is a strong need for writers who can understand APIs and explain them so that software developers can understand how to use them
  • API writers get to be in on the cutting edge of technology in high-paying positions

Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers
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Curriculum

Introduction

Identify Types of Data

Tools for Writing JSON and XML

JSON

What is JSON and How Does It Work?

Create a JSON File Exercise

JSON Quiz

Documenting JSON

JSON Documentation Exercise

JSON Documentation

An Alternative to Indenting

XML

What is XML and How Does It Work?

Create XML Exercise

XML Quiz

XML Documentation

Final Words

Tools for Writing Structured Data Documentation

Using Structured Data for Documentation

Review and Next Steps

Bonus Lecture: Offer for Next Course in the Series

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Faculty details

Peter Gruenbaum
Peter founded SDK Bridge to bring together his love of technology and writing. After 10 years as a software developer, he learned the skill of API writing at Microsoft. Since then, he has worked as an API writer to describe APIs for eCommerce, automobile traffic prediction, electric utilities, mobile phones, and tractors, just to name a few. In addition to API and SDK documentation, he creates video tutorials for software developer audiences. Peter received his BA in Physics from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University.

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Learning Experience: It was good. As per user perspective basic learning was well structured
Faculty: Awesome It was good
Course Support: Supported very very
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Learning Experience: It was nice learning. However I have first time experience JASON but the instructor explaination was nice. Udemy is good platform for learning.
Faculty: Nice Yes it was updated...but you we can learn basic only it's not very deeply prepared
Course Support: Not yet
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Other: This is my first introduction to API documentation and I've learned a great deal about it. The course was perfectly organized and explained.
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