Using Data APIs with JavaScript | Online
About this workshop
Wouldn’t you love to incorporate data from Twitter, ESPN, or even the weather onto your website? Join us for a hands-on workshop where we explore how to use data APIs in JavaScript to retrieve and display data from external sources. We will also explore some of the common terminology and concepts web developers use to describe this capability, such as REST and Ajax. By the end of the workshop, we will have created an account with a third-party data provider and built a website that shows their data on our page.
Takeaways
- Learn the meaning of key terms, such as API, REST, and Ajax
- Learn to use jQuery Ajax methods to retrieve data
- Build a web page that connects to an external data source and displays that data dynamically on their web page
Prereqs & Preparation
- A basic understanding of HTML and CSS
- Some experience writing JavaScript
- Laptop required
