API Design Best Practices
Free Intermediate course · 10 lessons · 3 weeks · Certificate on completion
Design APIs developers love: consistent, versioned, documented and evolvable. Across 10 lessons you'll move from fundamentals to a portfolio-ready outcome — at your own pace, with quizzes after each lesson and a final exam to certify your mastery.
What you'll learn
- What makes an API good
- Resource modelling
- HTTP methods and status codes
- Naming conventions
- Pagination and filtering
- Errors that help
Skills you'll pick up
- What makes an API good
- Resource modelling
- HTTP methods and status codes
- Naming conventions
- Pagination and filtering
- Errors that help
Tools covered
- API Design
- Real-world projects
- Quizzes
- Final exam
Course modules
Module 1: What makes an API good
Module 1 of API Design Best Practices. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 2: Naming conventions
Module 2 of API Design Best Practices. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 3: Versioning strategies
Module 3 of API Design Best Practices. 2 lessons · 2h
Module 4: Idempotency
Module 4 of API Design Best Practices. 2 lessons · 2h
Lessons in this course
- What makes an API good
- Resource modelling
- HTTP methods and status codes
- Naming conventions
- Pagination and filtering
- Errors that help
- Versioning strategies
- OpenAPI specifications
- Idempotency
- API reviews
Instructor
Fatima Al-Sayed — Principal Software Engineer
Fatima Al-Sayed is a Principal Software Engineer with years of hands-on experience teaching API Design to thousands of learners worldwide.
Certificate
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn a free, verifiable Learnera certificate for API Design Best Practices. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared on LinkedIn.
Career outcomes
Median global salary $130,000 per year · median India salary ₹18,20,000 per year · 46,731 open roles worldwide
- API Design Specialist
- Senior API Design Lead
- API Design Consultant
Frequently asked questions
Is the API Design Best Practices course free?
Yes. Every Learnera course, including API Design Best Practices, is completely free — lessons, quizzes, the final exam, and the certificate.
How long does API Design Best Practices take?
10 lessons, typically completed in 3 weeks at a comfortable pace.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — pass the final exam and you receive a free, verifiable certificate you can share on LinkedIn.