APIs serve as a bridge between different applications or systems, allowing us to efficiently share our data with the world. REST, an architectural style that defines how to build APIs, is popular, modern, and lightweight. In this course, discover how to create a RESTful API of your own. Join instructor Zuzana Kunckova as she demonstrates how to build a RESTful API using Laravel, the popular PHP framework. Learn how to set up your application, including how to create the database structure and set up RESTful API routes. Discover how to build your RESTful API and save, display, update, and delete resources Plus, explore how to use Postman to test your API and ensure that it works as expected.

Learn how to build a RESTful API using Laravel, the popular PHP framework for creating elegant applications.

Learn how to quickly build, secure, and test a RESTful API using Python and Flask, the Python microframework.

Find out how to build a simple, RESTful web API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.

Learn how to build a RESTful web API using the Django REST framework.

Learn to build roofs with Revit: from flat roofs to crazy free-form roofs and everything in between (hip, gable, mansard, Dutch hip combination, and gambrel).

Develop the self-confidence you need to succeed personally and professionally. Learn easy-to-practice techniques to become a more confident person.

Learn how to develop a serverless app on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This course covers how to work with Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Postman, and API gateway services, from setup to testing.

Learn how to create a serverless website using Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) principles and the Eleventy static site generator.

Leverage a serverless architecture to support your Xamarin mobile apps. Discover how to write a Xamarin.Forms app and retrieve data from Azure Functions.

Explore how to leverage single-page project templates—including React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js, and Aurelia.js—and JavaScriptServices to create a React and ASP.NET Core app.

Learn to how to use Excel to get the most out of Access 2013 and save time building database solutions and running reports.

Discover how to use Excel and Access 2016 together. Learn how to work with imports and exports, automate using macros and the AutoExec, build forms and reports, and more.

Learn strategies and techniques that can help you work smarter with Excel and Access 2019, and avoid needing to manually rebuild each time you run reports by building solutions.

Are you looking for a fun, meaningful way to level up your Python programming skills? In this course, instructor Robin Andrews shows you how to put together what you need to know to build the Python version of a classic Snake game. Robin introduces you to turtle graphics and how you can use and control animation using Python turtle graphics. He explains global variables and shows you how to draw with turtle graphics by using stamps. With these pieces in place, it’s time to work on the game itself! Robin walks you through how to represent the snake, move it around the screen, and control the snake’s direction. He discusses the game loop that is used to control the game and also goes over how to add snake food to the game, implement a scoring system, and reset the game. Robin finishes up with advice on how to use Lambda expressions to avoid repetition in your game and some fun ways to personalize your game.

What does resilience really mean? Many people define resilience as personal grit, but studies show that resilience is more about the resources you have that bring out the grit. In this audio-only course, Dr. Michael Ungar shares insights from his decades-long research into resilience to reveal that it’s not about your ruggedness, but rather your resources. Michael explores parts of your external environment that you can curate to boost your resilience. He details 12 resources that can help you build resistance into your life and then goes into small, safe moves you can make in order to create more resources that you can rely on. What do you do when you run out of resources? Michael discusses ways that adjusting your mindset and your expectations can help. He concludes by describing how new behaviors come from new environments.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Streamline workflows by developing custom tools with Python. Learn about designing for end users, craftsmanship, and trust as they relate to building small software utilities.

Learn a new trick to give designs and illustrations more depth and volume … transparency!

Learn how to build trust in the workplace. Find out how to earn trust, practice trust, and rebuild trust.

Learn how to apply the popular Vue.js framework with Node.js to build a full-stack app in JavaScript.