Your First Battle: A Complete API Combat Walkthrough
Step-by-step guide to playing your first API Combat battle using nothing but curl. From registration to victory in 5 minutes.
Technical notes, project documentation, and lessons learned across software, DIY, writing, and more.
Step-by-step guide to playing your first API Combat battle using nothing but curl. From registration to victory in 5 minutes.
A complete lesson plan with weekly activities, deliverables, and a weighted assessment rubric—mapped to 15 Wisconsin Computer Science Standards. Ready for your department chair.
Students don't care about todo APIs. But they'll build combat bots to beat their classmates. Same concepts. Different motivation.
The API is the game. The UI constraints are gone. Build what you want. Automate what you need. Play how you choose.
An API-only combat game where building the client is part of the gameplay. No UI. No graphics. Just REST endpoints and strategic combat.