
API introduction use JavaScript AJAX JSON Social Connections
APIs are an extremely powerful way to access content and interact with severs across the internet. Within this course we show you how to use simple JavaScript and connect to popular web 2.0 APIs like Twitter, Google Maps, and Facebook. We show you how AJAX works and how to use JSON to transfer and output data onto your webpage. We use HTML and CSS to setup the webpage, and JavaScript to pull data onto the page. AJAX and how to connect and output file information into HTML using JavaScript. JSON - as a data source, how to check JSON and parse it using JavaScript. Google Maps - is done using JavaScript, we show you how to add interactive maps, set markers and more. Basic JavaScript knowledge is used but not required. Twitter Developer API - We introduce you to the Twitter Developer console, how to create applications and widgets. We show several ways to place Twitter data on your site, including Twitter Widgets, JavaScript only format for search, timelines and user info.