Chapter 14: Design and Create an API

A few times in this book, I've told you that I think it is important for you to not just read this material, but to actually try it out. I've tried to show you examples that you can follow along with and given you challenges along the way to try out. I want to end this book with a large-scale, hands-on challenge. This challenge will pull together concepts from this entire book, so if you have been following along the entire time, you should have everything you need to be successful with it.

I know, however, that not everyone reads a book linearly from start to finish, and even for those of us that do, we may read it over the course of a few weeks, or perhaps even months, and so forget some of the stuff that we've learned along the way. I will be sure to include references to other chapters in this book that you can refer to along the way as we do this. Go back and re-read them whenever necessary.

I'm going to lay this...