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#ICYMI: This is a topic I’ve wanted to set in motion for some time now. I had a new university professor city my work again as part of one of their courses recently, something that floated this concept to the top of the pile again–API discovery collections meant for just for students. Helping k-12, community college, and university students quickly understand where to find the most relevant APIs to whatever they are working on. Providing human, but also machine-readable collections that can help jumpstart their API education.

I use the API discovery format APIs.json to profile individual, as well as collections of APIs. I’m going to kickstart a couple of project repos, helping me flesh out a handful of interesting collections that might help students better understand the world of APIs: https://goo.gl/ywV18M

#ICYDK: I had the pleasure of teaching a workshop at HackBCA’s Imagine 2018 event for a group of High School students in Hackensack, New Jersey on Sunday afternoon. I was very impressed with their engaging questions and most of all, their results! https://imagine.hackbca.com/workshops/

I’ve taught workshops around the world on various topics. While they’ve often been covering subjects of a more challenging nature, the end results were usually less impressive than what we achieved in this hour-and-a-half session on Decentralized Web Development with Docker, Nginx, and Filestack. I think that’s because the toolchain we used in this workshop was leveraging so much power behind the scenes with such a simple set of steps to implement. There were somewhere between 15-20 or so students at this event. I’ll recap what we did together here. https://goo.gl/c8wAtP