How I earned "Postman's API fundamentals Student Expert Badge" in just a Week?

How I came to know about the Postman API program?

One day in my college, someone organized a workshop for Introducing the Postman's Student API program. He talked about what an API is. What is the use of API? Why postman? etc etc. He also made us do some hands-on collections also. That time I found this API concept very interesting and I started working on this.

How to get registered for the Postman API fundamentals Student Expert program?

When I completed that workshop they sent us the google registration form link. I registered myself there and got a mail from them. First I completed a small "Intro to API and Postman" course. You also can start learning this course by clicking on this link.

About Course -

In this course, you just have to follow the steps which they are telling us to follow and you will easily complete the course. After completing the course, you will get an idea of what API is. why should we use Postman to work with API?

After this basic understanding of API, you are good to go for becoming a Postman's API fundamentals Student Expert. By clicking on this link, you can register yourself for the Student Expert program. In this course also by making some changes in requests, adding some scripts, and following the simple instructions, you can simply complete the course. If you get stuck anywhere, you can refer to FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) to see the similar questions students had previously or you can simply mail them to studentprogram@postman.com for asking the solution to what problem you are facing and they will get in touch with you.

When you complete the course, you have to submit your collection link. If your collection gets all tests passed, then you'll get the mail from Postman, mentioning that "You have successfully completed the Student expert program" and you'll get your badge for that you have to create an account on Badgr.com and you can collect your badge from there.

For like, Student Expert Program there are two more programs are available with names Student Leader Program and Classroom Program. You can also apply for this program by just clicking on this link.

What did I learn in this course?

• What is an API?

• How to send various requests to the server?

• What is the use of various requests like, Get, Put, Patch, Delete, etc?

• How to add scripts, variables, parameters, and API keys?

Like this, you'll get to know lots of interesting things. Just try to complete the course by learning it not only for a badge.

After completing this course try to implement this somewhere. You can find so many open-source projects on GitHub where you can apply whatever you've learned. Open source is the best platform to showcase your skills and learn new skills as well.

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