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Ask HN: API Design Courses?

2 points by evo_9 5y ago

I'm struggling to find a good course that focuses mostly/soley on API Design. What I find is a ton of courses on creating an API in language 'X'; that's not what I'm after, I understand the nuts-and-bolts of creating an API (primary C# Web-API if you're wondering). I'm after a course that covers the design of the API before you write any code. BUT if you do know of an excellent API Design class that's also happens to be C#/Web-API focused, please send that along too! Thanks!

waoush 5y ago
Josh Bloch refactored libraries in Java that handles a bunch of data structures. It was widely considered a success and he teaches API design at CMU (was also an engineer at Google): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heh4OeB9A-c&ab_channel=GoogleTalksArchive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heh4OeB9A-c&ab_channel=Googl... https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/15-214/2014-fall/slides/17-api-design.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/15-214/2014-fall/sli... These use Java as the language, but a bit of this applies to web APIs as well.