A suggestion is to contact Sharon Faust, aka Quickbase Junkie to to see what free and paid courseware she has. I presume a skill you would want to have is to learn how to parse the JSON responses which seems to be the standard for API Responses from outside 3rd party systems. I contracted with Sharon to help me with a particular project I was working on, and I also successfully muddled my way on my own through a project to automate receiving the weather forecast for the next 14 days and coax it onto a chart each day. That was a project I did just to learn how to parse array responses as the API comes back with an array for the 14 day forecast.
I'm not a "programmer", so that syntax to parse the API JSON responses does not come naturally to me!