Cherryleaf – Creating API Documentation and Developer Portals Course
An affordable way to master the skills of API documentation writing
Cherryleaf’s popular online training course teaches you how the keys skills of writing and managing an API developer portal. You’ll gain confidence you’re approaching each writing project in the right way, and creating content that follows best practice.
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone responsible for managing, planning or writing API documentation. For example:
- Developers wanting to provide API documentation that is complete and meets the needs of the users.
- Developers wanting to discover best practices in API documentation and developer portals
- Technical Authors/Writers wanting to understand APIs and how to write documentation for them.
What You’ll Learn In Creating API Documentation and Developer Portals Course
Creating API documentation and developer portals (beta)
- Introduction (4:52)
- What is an API? (23:39)
- Using an API (23:28)
- How APIs are created (1:24)
- Authentication and accreditation (17:53)
- What documentation should I write? (17:12)
- The Overview section (7:04)
- The Concepts section (2:16)
- The Getting ed section (5:43)
- The API Reference section (2:20)
- Writing the API reference by hand (12:31)
- Cookbooks (3:46)
- Tutorial/Colab/Code labs (3:27)
- One-pagers (1:23)
- The Case Study section (2:21)
- The FAQs/Troubleshooting section (2:08)
- PreviewCheat sheets (2:25)
- Release notes (Changelog) (2:22)
- Other content (3:13)
- Onboarding (2:11)
- Writing code samples (5:56)
- Documentation – summary (1:18)
- Design patterns in developer portals (14:52)
- Authoring tools for API documentation (37:33)
- Managing an API documentation project (17:53)
- Summary (2:58)
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