In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Api books and tutorials can help fill your brain this June and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- APIs: A Strategy Guide: Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces (2011)
- Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide (2014)
- ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web API For Beginners: How to Build A Web API (Volume 2) (2017)
- Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS (2017)
- Windows 95 Win 32 Programming Api Bible (Complete Programmer’s Reference) (1996)
- Getting Started with OAuth 2.0: Programming Clients for Secure Web API Authorization (2012)
- Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic (1999)
- Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Guide to MEL and C++ API (2003)
- Practical ASP.NET Web API (2013)
- Lightweight Django (2014)
- Pro HTML5 Programming (2011)
APIs: A Strategy Guide: Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces (2011)
Programmers used to be the only people excited about APIs, but now a growing number of companies see them as a hot new product channel. This concise guide describes the tremendous business potential of APIs, and demonstrates how you can use them to provide valuable services to clients, partners, or the public via the Internet.
Author(s): Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail
Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide (2014)
What will you learn from this book? This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model.
Author(s): Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web API For Beginners: How to Build A Web API (Volume 2) (2017)
Want to learn how to build ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web APIs?C# (Intermediate level; including Generics, Reflection and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)). This book is primarily aimed at developers who want to learn how to build ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web APIs; no user interface will be built; instead, you will use a tool called Postman to make requests and to receive responses from the Web API. You should be an intermediate level C# developer with some experience in object-oriented
Author(s): Jonas Fagerberg
Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS (2017)
Discover the RESTful technologies, including REST, JSON, XML, JAX-RS web services, SOAP and more, for building today’s microservices, big data applications, and web service applications.
Author(s): Sanjay Patni
Windows 95 Win 32 Programming Api Bible (Complete Programmer’s Reference) (1996)
A book/CD-ROM reference for novice and seasoned C and C++ programmers and Windows developers, overviewing the Win32 and Windows NT API functions. Organizes APIs by program functionality and illustrates techniques with real-life programming examples. Discusses concepts including multimedia project development, data compression, communication functions, and the DDE management library. The accompanying CD-ROM contains source code for example programs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Author(s): Richard J. Simon, Michael Gouker
Getting Started with OAuth 2.0: Programming Clients for Secure Web API Authorization (2012)
Whether you develop web applications or mobile apps, the OAuth 2.0 protocol will save a lot of headaches. This concise introduction shows you how OAuth provides a single authorization technology across numerous APIs on the Web, so you can securely access users’ data—such as user profiles, photos, videos, and contact lists—to improve their experience of your application.
Author(s): Ryan Boyd
Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic (1999)
The Win32 API, or Application Programming Interface, is of immense use in extending the power of Visual Basic. The Win32 API is the collection of functions and subroutines that provides programmatic access to the features of the operating system.
Author(s): PhD Steven Roman
Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Guide to MEL and C++ API (2003)
Learning Maya, the world’s leading 3D animation and effects package, is a challenge, especially for those who want to master Maya’s versatile programming features in addition to its built-in tools. Finally, here is a practical, step-by-step guide that shows how to use Maya to its fullest potential, beginning with the basics. Readers of Complete Maya Programming will first gain a thorough understanding of Maya’s inner workings, and then learn how to customize and extend Maya with scripts and plugins that take control and productivity to new levels.
Author(s): David Gould
Practical ASP.NET Web API (2013)
Practical ASP.NET Web API provides you with a hands-on and code-focused demonstration of the ASP.NET Web API in action. From the very beginning, you’ll be writing working code in order to see best practices and concepts in action. As the book progresses, the concepts and code will become more sophisticated. Beginning with an overview of the web service model in general and Web API in particular, you’ll progress quickly to a detailed exploration of the request binding and response formatting
Author(s): Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan
Lightweight Django (2014)
How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects. Learn how to make the most of Django’s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the lightweight
Author(s): Julia Elman, Mark Lavin
Pro HTML5 Programming (2011)
HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications have acquired power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology―available in the most recent versions of modern browsers―to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. This new edition includes major revisions for WebSockets functionality, reflecting the new W3C specification.
Author(s): Peter Lubbers, Frank Salim
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Best API Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Api books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
API STANDARD 650 Welded Tanks for Oil Storage
Author(s): American Petroleum Institute API
ID: 3352007, Publisher: API, Year: 206, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
JavaScript for Sound Artists. Learn to Code with the Web Audio API
Author(s): W. Turner, S. Leonard
ID: 3308926, Publisher: , Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Microservice APIs: Using Python, Flask, FastAPI, OpenAPI and more
Author(s): José Haro Peralta
ID: 3533076, Publisher: Manning Publications, Year: 2023, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.