From the course: Building RESTful APIs with Flask
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What you should know
- [Instructor] The material in this course is, I think, fairly straightforward, but there are some prerequisite knowledge and skills that will ensure your success. First, I assume you know the basics of the Python programming language, specifically Python 3. Your knowledge of the subject matter need not be encyclopedic. If you know how to create and use variables and functions you'll be fine. I assume you know how basic web applications work. If this is your first API that's fine, but I expect you to understand the traditional HTML workflow for posting forms to a backend and how the requests actually work. You don't need to get down to the network packets, you just need to know that the applications accessing your API will make requests and your API will send back responses in the JavaScript Object Notation format. JSON is supported by most programming languages and Python is no exception. It's more convenient than using XML or custom delimited text because it doesn't have to be…
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