3Accessing Claude with the API
Mid-course check-in
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Time: 3–5 minutes
Rate your confidence across the core API concepts covered so far. This is a check-in, not a test — the goal is to spot anything worth a second pass before moving on to streaming and structured output.
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1.I can make a basic API request using client.messages.create() and extract the response text.
2.I can maintain multi-turn conversation history using the append-and-replay pattern.
3.I can write a system prompt that reliably shapes Claude's persona and behaviour.
4.I can pick an appropriate temperature value for a given task.
5.I understand the structure of a message (role + content) and why messages are a list.
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Use this check-in to identify any concepts worth revisiting before moving on to streaming and structured output.