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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.

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