From the course: Building and Securing Restful APIs in .NET

What you should know - .NET Tutorial

From the course: Building and Securing Restful APIs in .NET

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] Before you begin this course, there are a few things that you should know and a few tools that you're going to need. First, what you need to know. You should have some comfort with REST fundamentals. This course isn't going to teach you the REST fundamentals, it's going to teach you how to implement an API that follows them. So I'd recommend if you're not familiar, you check out one of these courses in the LinkedIn Learning Library to get up to speed on the REST architecture and the constraints that it defines. Also, we're going to be using ASP>NET and C#, but I do expect that you have a little bit of comfort and understanding of how the language works and how ASP.NET networks. But you won't need a lot, as we'll be walking through those exercises, we'll be walking through the code, and I'll be showing you step by step how to write the APIs. And then what do you need? You need Visual Studio Code. It's a free code editor available for multiple platforms, and it has support built in for Git, which is where we'll be storing our code and we'll be accessing the exercise files. So you can download that, and that's the editor we'll be using throughout the videos. In addition, you'll need the .NET 8 SDK, which is another free download you can download and install. That's going to give you all of ASP.NET tools that we'll be using, and we'll add others along the way using the command line tools it provides. And finally, you'll need Git installed on your system in order to pull the code down from GitHub and the repository. I'll show you shortly how to do that. and those are really the three free tools you're going to need to follow along with the exercises.

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