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What Is an API? (Hint: It Is Not a Sandwich)

madison-stankevich on February 20, 2019

If you had told me two weeks ago that in one week's time I would be proudly presenting a project that centered around the use of an API, I would ha...
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Darren

Great example... I keep thinking 'what is an API?' whenever I think about it..

I tend to think of them as function calls but that's not entirely true and I always find the syntax... let's call it.. interesting

But then I rarely use them for fun... and only periodically run into them in my testing

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Xavier

Great explanation !

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Kral Balkizar

The best explanation of API I have ever read so far. Thank you.

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James McPherson

This is a very good explanation of what an API is and (just as importantly) what it is not.