If you need programming APIs, and not necessarily REST, take a look at "Practical API Design, Confessions of a Java Framework Architect": http://www.apress.com/9781430209737
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#42Teach a Dog to REST: Some great REST API patterns distilled into a simple presentation http://www.slideshare.net/landlessness/teach-a-dog-to-rest
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#43For C++ APIs, "API Design for C++" from Martin Reddy:
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#44I think it depends on what type of API you'd like to design. If you're talking about REST APIs, then the best book I've come across is RESTful Web APIs by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen: http://restfulwebapis.org/ It actually shows you how to do REST properly, not that shoddy knock-off REST that some people push, where you have to document all your URI structures and hard-code them in your clients. There's soli…
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I cannot recommend this book enough. Read it, read it again, take in everything it is trying to say and try as hard as you can to understand it.
There is a whole world of awesome and tragically misunderstood tools in the book.
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#45Though it's somewhat dated and C# oriented, the really, really fantastic Framework Design Guidelines by Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina is a thoughtful treatise on designing usable APIs. A lot of the things I read in there still resonate with me almost a decade later.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Convent...
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#46I asked myself this a couple of months back. Here's what I found http://harrymoreno.com/2016/03/31/API-design-link-roundup.ht...
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#47Any good online courses?
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#48This question is a little vague. My assumption is you mean a REST API. This is a must watch and encapsulates good design and theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdSrT4yjS1g Good API design, if you are trying to learn from zero, comes from learning from good examples. These are some of my favorites APIs by design + Stripe + Twilio + Slack + Stormpath (fd: I work here) There is a lot of work that goes around the AP…
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Re: Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
#49Check this one: Build APIs You Won't Hate - Phil Sturgeon
I second this. Great read if you want a better understanding of design your APIs.
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#50A good read for API design is "The Little Manual of API Design": http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf
It falls into the category of non-web API. It's a good read and I think it carries over to web APIs quite well.