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Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points
Posted by Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points

I need to learn api's in order to link my distributors inventory to shopify, amazon, etc. Best place to start??

I have limited programming knowledge. I've been thru some basic courses and a fair amount of HTML. I need to know where to start to learn to link my distributors API with Shopify for my first task. Basically what would be the friendliest language to learn for this and what background knowledge do I need. I basically only know that an API is a way for two programs to communicate. Thanks!

2 Answers

codedraken
codedraken
6,117 Points
codedraken
codedraken
6,117 Points

Learn basics of HTTP and then how to do requests in JS or whatever language you're using.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/http-basics

Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points
Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points

With me basically having no language background, (I've done intro ruby and maybe just a touch of Java and JS) is there one you would recommend over another for me to learn?

Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points
Dusty Longwell
Dusty Longwell
6,981 Points

Thanks Evan! I will get started right away.