Year 2 Term 6: Working with APIs

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Learn what APIs are and how to use them. Build programs that leverage real AI capabilities.

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What Is an API? 🔌📡

Discover how programs talk to other programs — the request and response cycle — and write your very first mock API in Python

JSON & Dictionaries 📦🔑

Discover that JSON — the format APIs send data in — is really just a Python dictionary in disguise, and learn to safely read values out of nested mock API responses

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Build Your Own Mock API 🏗️📡

Become the server! Write mock API service functions that take a request and return a response dict — the weather, joke, and fact tools your AI assistant will use later this term

Status Codes & Error Handling 🚦❗

Learn how real APIs report success and failure with status codes (200, 404, 500), upgrade your mock API to send status + data, and write a client that handles every response without ever crashing

Chatbot Intents 🎯💬

Teach your assistant to understand what a user WANTS — build detect_intent to read a message, spot the intent, and route it to the right mock API

Assembling the Assistant 🤖🔧

Combine your mock API services, your intent brain, and a chat loop into one working AI-style assistant — BrightBot — that answers about weather, jokes, and facts

Project: AI-Powered Assistant 🤖⭐

Upgrade your Week 6 assistant into a personalised, polished helper — it remembers your name and favourite city, has its own personality and voice, offers new services, and never, ever crashes

Assistant Showcase & API Master Badge 🤖🏅

Term 6 finale — demo your AI-powered assistant live, give peer feedback, ace a fun APIs quiz, earn the API Master Badge, and celebrate finishing Term 6