A First Look at APIs

• What is an API?
• Who is the user of an API?
• How javadoc tells you what you need to know
• Classes and objects, methods and properties
• Buzzword soup: methods, member functions, functions, properties
• The user interface of a Java method
• Documenting that user interface
• Determining a method's name, purpose, parameters and return value
• Our focus: converting source files to documentation

• Programming languages and their origins
• The Java 2 SDK
• Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
• Applets and applications
• JavaBeans and Enterprise Java Beans
• Origins of C#, .NET and Web services
• Microsoft, Sun and the politics of programming languages

• Methods (functions)
• Types
• Parameters
• Return values
• Signatures
• Private and public
• Bundling classes into packages
• Java interfaces: the how and why

• How Java and C# are very similar
• The differences between Java and C#
• How these differences affect documentation
• Documentation generation programs for the Microsoft universe

What You Get in this Package

• The entire 1-day workshop captured on multiple DVDs
• Printed workbook featuring 100+ PowerPoint slides
  plus additional reference material
  (extra copies available at a discount for your whole team)
• Professionally-edited digital video keyed to the slides
• Convenient, organized interface that enables you to
  --View a continuous presentation
  --Jump to any slide and associated video clip in particular
• Bibliography of related books and Web resources (10 pages)
• Glossary of 150 programming terms
• "Getting Started" booklet with training suggestions

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Who Can Benefit from this DVD

• Technical Writers being asked to document SDKs written in Java
• Writers or consultants wanting to break into the lucrative field of writing SDKs.
• Writers with some previous exposure to computer programming (any language)
• Managers looking to reduce employee training costs, without compromising quality
• Training coordinators seeking useful resources for professional development

Whatever your role, this "workshop-on-a-DVD" offers you and your team all the rich interaction of a live workshop... with none of the cost and headaches of getting there.

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Look at All the Benefits

Now you can experience this live workshop... in the comfort of your own home or office... using any computer or TV equipped with a DVD player.

Now you can watch and learn at your own convenience... on your own timetable... and review any material any time in the future, as often as you like.

Now you can avoid the cost of airfare, hotels, restaurants and taxis. Managers, you can upgrade the skills of your whole team for less than the cost of sending one person to a conference.

Plus, you can save time and avoid taking days out of your busy schedule for traveling to a training session.

To sum up, you gain comfort and convenience... stretch your budget... save time... and have a valuable training asset at your fingertips to use over and over again.

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What People Say about this Workshop

"I'm excited by the fact that I can now READ and UNDERSTAND the code I spend most of the time cutting and pasting!"

"We have so much trouble finding tech writers who can read source files and document APIs! This course will be really, really good for the other two writers on my team."

"Love the exercises. I find this course is bringing everything together that I've been trying to learn on my own so far."

"Good tips for extracting important information from code and other sources."

"I have no programming background. Part of my job is to format the docs written by programmers. After this training, I am going to be able to write the doc by myself."

"Overall, the course was EXCELLENT. I have benefitted ENORMOUSLY and it will help me TREMENDOUSLY in my work. I think it has been one of the most useful courses I have taken. Thank you so very much."

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Save on Workbooks for Everyone

To get the most from this workshop, we recommend that everyone viewing these DVDs has their own workbook. Additional workbooks are available to purchasers of this DVD at a big discount.

Upon completion of the DVD ordering process, your browser will jump to a page where you can order a workbook for everyone on your team at the following discounts:

• 1 to 4 additional copies: US$34.95 each (that's 30% off!)
• 5+ additional copies: US$24.95 each (that's 50% off!)
• plus US$2.50 S&H each

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And remember, there's no risk: if you're not satisfied with this product, you can return it to us for a complete refund.