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Updated API Getting Started tutorial

by Tom Johnson on Apr 19, 2021
categories: api-doc • api-doc-site-updates

I updated the Getting Started tutorial section in my API course. I included a new section about the philosophic foundations of getting started tutorials, as I believe that this mindset toward action-oriented learning in API documentation is key. I also realized that the Run in Postman buttons are now forked collections in a web interface rather than static code that is downloaded to a local Postman client. So much changes in API tools that from one year to the next, any tutorial is sure to become outdated.

You can view the tutorial here: API getting started.

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