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Improve your Postman skills using the in-app Postman lessons

Did you know that Postman had in interactive in-app learning center? You can opt-in to any lesson to improve or practice your Postman skills.

From the announcement:

When you enter the learning center in the app, you’ll see a library of interactive lessons that range from beginner to expert level. We designed the learning center to track your progress, so your lessons will always be geared to your skillset. In addition, we are consistently adding new lessons. Your learning center will automatically populate with new and relevant material for you to master. 

Here are some things you can learn right now on Postman’s in-app learning center

  • Designing and mocking APIs (2 lessons) – Designing and mocking your APIs before you build them helps you define dependencies, create contracts, and identify expected functionality as well as potential problems.
  • Debugging and manual testing (4 lessons) – Manually testing and debugging your APIs is a great skill, and it’s the first step on the way to automation!
  • Automated testing (4 lessons) – Save time by using Postman’s powerful test scripts to automate your tests.
  • API documentation (1 lesson) – Postman allows you to automatically create beautiful, web-viewable documentation right from your collection.
  • Monitoring (1 lesson) – Monitoring allows you to create automated tests that monitor your APIs on a custom schedule. You can monitor for uptime, responsiveness, and correctness.
  • Collaboration (1 lesson) – This lesson will show you how to use Postman’s tools to strengthen your team’s collaboration efficiency.

To get started you only have to click on the Learn button in the right bottom corner of your Postman app:

After logging in, you’ll see a list of all available lessons:

Choose a lesson from the list and click Learn to get started:

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