I’m going to assume that you, as the reader, have watched the video when I begin the next paragraph. It is quick and painless and uses an easily understood analogy for APIs, and requests and responses. Once you have it installed, if you plan to, then let’s watch the below video. It can easily be installed on any operating system: Windows, macOS, or Linux.
My thought was to teach a bit about APIs with some help-the video linked at the end of this paragraph is great-and then, assume the reader has absolutely no experience with PowerShell.
There’s no looping or conditional logic-I just never thought of either of those two that way. Do this to that, place that there, make this bold, etc. It’s a formatting language, like markdown. I find it strange when people think it is. The languages the thread’s author mentioned were “HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and/or Python.” I could get some hate for this, but when I learned HTML and CSS I never once thought it was a programming language. Why would you even want to focus on one language, as so many can make API calls? I think time would be better spent learning and understanding APIs before learning any one language.
Maybe there will be a few things to learn, but not all of it. I have well over 10 years of learning and working with PowerShell, and I don’t think anyone needs that to use an API. The author wanted to know if they need to know how to program to make use of an API-an Application Programming Interface. I read a recent post on the technical writing subreddit, “ How proficient in coding do you have to be to write API Documentation?” I jumped in and posted, as technology is my jam, and writing is my passion.
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