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Three fixes. Three confident explanations. Zero progress. After a failed client demo and two weeks of pain...

Step-by-step guide to playing your first API Combat battle using nothing but curl. From registration to victory in 5 minutes.

A complete lesson plan with weekly activities, deliverables, and a weighted assessment rubric—mapped to 15 Wisconsin Computer Science Standards.

Students don't care about todo APIs. But they'll build combat bots to beat their classmates. Same concepts. Different motivation.

The API is the game. The UI constraints are gone. Build what you want. Automate what you need. Play how you choose.

An API-only combat game where building the client is part of the gameplay. No UI. No graphics. Just REST endpoints and strategic combat.