Reading-notes

How I explained REST to my brother

Who is Roy Fielding? * HE WAS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO FIRST SENT DOCUMENTS ACROSS THE INTERNET Why don’t the techniques that we use in this class work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world? * they were only desgined to work to talk to a few computers at a time What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created? * What does a GET do? * is all about applying verbs to nouns. For instance, when you go to a web page, the browser does an HTTP GET on the URL you typed in and back comes a web page What does a POST do? * to add something to another computer system it would use the verb of post What does PUT do? * to replace sometihng on another system What does PATCH do? * a partial update is when patch is used. API Keys Request a personal API key from the following APIs. You should receive these in your email within a few hours, often within minutes. Please request these keys prior to lecture to allow adequate time because you will need them in order to complete your lab assignment. Note: do not post your API keys in the Canvas discussion or on GitHub. Save them in a secure place.

Geocoding API

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Weather Bit API

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Yelp API Docs

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The Movie DB API Docs

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