1. The curl command was fairly simple to accomplish after reading a couple articles on bash commands and watching a video.

2. Postman collection was a little difficult for me to understand at first but after watching a couple follow along videos i was able to understand enough to be able to comple the assignment.

3. JSON serialization was very simple. all i needed to do was create an object and then strigafy the object and finally console.log the variable.

4. On this part i first tried to accomplish the assignemtn using javascript. after runnign in to a couple of roadblocks i decided to try with python. I followed along with a tutorial and spent a significant amount of time trying to make the code work. i was unable to create a funcioning server and will have to research this topic further.