Glossary term
What is JSON?
In Apex Flow Academy, "JSON" means: A plain text format for saving lists, dictionaries, text and numbers so a program can load them later. It is taught in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work and JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive and 3 more courses.
- 6 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is JSON?
A plain text format for saving lists, dictionaries, text and numbers so a program can load them later. (From Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work. 5 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does JSON mean in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work?
A plain text format for saving lists, dictionaries, text and numbers so a program can load them later.
What does JSON mean in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work?
A text format for nested data that looks like Python dictionaries and lists.
What does JSON mean in JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive?
A text format for data that looks like JavaScript arrays and objects. Programs use it to save and send data.
What does JSON mean in Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)?
A plain text way to write data as names and values, with curly braces around one record and square brackets around a list.
What does JSON mean in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs?
A plain-text format for structured data that looks like a JavaScript object and that almost every language can read.
What does JSON mean in Prompt Engineering Essentials?
A way to write labeled data as names and values inside curly braces, so a spreadsheet or program can read it.
Where is JSON taught?
JSON is defined in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs and Prompt Engineering Essentials.
Python From Zero: Write Programs That WorkPython Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring WorkJavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come AliveBuild AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)Node.js: Build the Back End and APIsPrompt Engineering Essentials
Which lessons cover JSON?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, lesson 5.3: Save Data with JSON
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, lesson 5.2: Read Data from a JSON API
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, lesson 6.1: One Entry Point: A Settings File and Command-Line Options
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 6.1: Save tasks with localStorage
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 6.2: Load live data with fetch
Which terms are related to JSON?
Next to JSON in the course glossaries: docstring, dry run, traceback, assert, exception, module, API, Status code, CSS selector and Timeout.
docstringdry runtracebackassertexceptionmoduleAPIStatus codeCSS selectorTimeout
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn JSON?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner and intermediate level:
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work: No programming experience is needed.
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work: Basic Python: variables, if statements, for loops, lists, dictionaries, f-strings and small functions. Lesson 3 of module 1 has a five-minute check.
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive: No prior programming and no CSS knowledge are needed; the style sheet you need is given to you.
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code): Comfortable using email, a web browser, and a spreadsheet (rows and columns; formulas are not needed).
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs: Basic JavaScript: variables, functions, objects, arrays, conditions and loops.
- Prompt Engineering Essentials: No coding, statistics or prior AI experience needed.