I am Looking for a very basic book for Revit 2019 or 2018 API

[mehsan]

I know CAD API but now I am Looking for a very basic book for Revit 2019 or 2018 API, (Programming) Please Help.

Thanks

[naveen.kumar.t]

Hi @mehsan ,

To get started with the Revit API, I suggest that you, first of all, take a look at the step-by-step instructions provided by My First Revit Plugin.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/simplecontent/content/my-fi... 

To know a lot about API's you can visit the below link

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2019/ 

You can also visit Jeremy's blog

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2 

[Yien_Chao]

i believe there is none.

but you can check good tutorials on youtube by Danny Bentley or other paid tutorial by Jeremy Graham.

[jeremytammik]

Some very good advice on getting started programming is provided in this month's issue of AUGI:

• AUGIWorld October 2019 issue -- https://issuu.com/augi/docs/aw201910hr
• Page 20: Revit API Starter Kit -- https://issuu.com/augi/docs/aw201910hr/20

[jeremytammik]

If you wish to start with programming from zero, you may want to quickly first learn some fundamentals first:

Basic programming in general – take a Python tutorial -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+tutorial
Basic C# and .NET in general – take a C# .NET tutorial -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=C%23+.NET+tutorial
Basic Revit API interaction – take a Revit macro tutorial -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Revit+macro+tutorial

All three of those steps can be very quickly and simply achieved and will immensely improve your understanding and simplify things for you if and when you decide to start creating your own full-blown Revit add-in.

[jeremytammik]

For future reference, I summarised all these suggestions and more in The Building Coder:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2019/10/starter-kit-books-and-music.html#3

Good luck and have fun getting started!