What is an API? Reading Assignment

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An Application Programming Interface, a way of programmatically interface with an application
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Twitter uses web-based APIs, request wrapped in HTML to twitter hosts. Java requires installation of the java development kit.
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Most daily actions are abstractions. You are generally not aware of the intricacies of simple tasks like making a sandwich for example. Your brain abstracts the basic task, but you are not aware of all the complexities required to accomplish this task.

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#445

What is an API?
A guide for programmers that can’t write code… Shortcut code

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Java API comes with Java so you don’t have to start from scratch Twitter API is web based and manipulated Twitter data.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Using the remote control for my tv

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#446

1) What is an API?
An API is a set of operations that a programer can plug into their code to create a specific outcome. An example of an API is for the drop-down sorting option for the user country of origin.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
The Java API is an “out of the box” API where Twiter is a web-based JASON API. @ivan I am not sure what the difference is?

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
The coffee machine: I just pour in water and beans, and it makes coffee. The mechanics of the machine heats the water, grinds the right amount of beans, deposit the ground beans int a basket, pour hot water over the beans, and filter/drain the mix of beans and water in a pot that is kept at set temperature.

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  1. API (application programming interface) defines specifications of possible interactions with a software component
  2. Java API interacts only with Java development Kit, while Twitter API interacts between client and server. Client can send the HTTP request over the web and the response is delivered in format called JSON.
  3. Uber service is an abstarction - all I need to know is to input destination address. All other information, such as: my current physical location, the choice of the auto that drives me there and payment for the service is run by the app.
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Java API is local to your server (could be programmed for any use case) , while twitter is a web-based that serve to only interact with twitter data among the web, meaning you can request real-time data from twitter servers to used it on any idea you could have.

If you have any more questions, please let us know so we can help you! :slight_smile:

Carlos Z.

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#449

1) What is an API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a method, or methods, of programming with different sources to accomplish various goals within an application.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
The main difference between the Java API and the Twitter API is that the Java API is available for use from the Java Development Kit once you install it, making it readily available to you. The Twitter API, on the other hand is web based. You do not install it. To use components from the Twitter API you must request them through the internet from Twitter backed services.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.

Taking any course on Ivan On Tech. In sitting down and logging in to watch the videos pertaining to any course I decide to take, I am abstracted away from the time consuming process of collecting all the information found in any of these courses and putting them into a format, such as the videos and creating corresponding assignments to reenforce the knowledge obtained. Not to mention the support system available to insure I stay on task.

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#450

  1. An APi is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource

  2. The Java API is available to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit.
    The Twitter API is a web based API. It must be accesssed by making a request over the internet to services that Twitter hosts.

  3. One abstraction in my daily life is using a gym membership card to enter the facility without checking in with a receptionist. Your card interacts with a computer system that you can’t visually see but it accesses your data and unlocks permission and you gain entry to the facility.

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#451

  1. An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of specifications that allow software to programmatically interact with other software components or resources.

  2. The Java API is included in the Java Development Kit and consists of software components that implement many common tasks and are ready for use by any developer that downloads the Kit. The Twitter API, on the other hand is web-based and must be accessed by sending requests over the internet to the services that Twitter hosts.

  3. Abstraction in daily life: Switching on the lights - I don’t need to know how the electricity was generated or exactly what route it took to get from the grid into my house, etc, I just need to know that if I flip the switch, the lights will come on.

#452
  1. An API (Application Programming Interface) is an application that allows two applications to interact with each other.
    2.Twitter API is a web based API and has to be accessed by sending a request over the internet that Twitter hosts. Java API is a library of tools that programmers can use for common tasks if they download the Kit.
  2. One abstraction in my daily life is using my employee card to enter work. I don’t need to worry about the company confirming my identity or any of the technical details. All I need to do is swipe my card and I can get in.
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  1. In my words, an API is a set of canned rules or instructions that facilitate the communication between different applications. We use API’s to simplify connecting our CRM with other applications that bring additional functionality needed by the business.
  2. The Java API is part of a developer kit that provides a “catalog” of functionality that a develop can choose and configure to simplify coding. A Twitter API is more of a canned interface that returns results. Like grabbing a CoinGecko JSON API and pulling token feeds into a Google Spreadsheet.
  3. I really just want to rest on Yoshi-Satoshi’s most excellent Abstraction. Clean water when I turn on the water at my sink.
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#454

  1. API stands for Application Programming Interface. It makes programming easier because it brings in fully functioning code, therefor the programmer doesn’t have to write everything from scratch.

  2. The Java API is generic and can be used almost universally. The Twitter API uses is specific to Twitter and is only used for their platform.

  3. When yo buy Bitcoin from an exchange, you don’t see the process behind another user selling the Bitcoin to you. You just click “buy” and the Bitcoin is yours. However the process is much more complicated than that.

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#455
  1. API - It allows application to talk to each other.
  2. JAVA API - is a library of software components. You can do list things, add items and sort of list. A set of classes using Java Language.
    TWITTER API - is a web based API, it must be accessed by making a request over the internet to services that Twitter host. Allows people to engage with the variety of different resources like chats, ads,etc.
  3. Abstraction - I think money is an abstraction for me thinking the price of the bitcoin when I woke up. It only defined in my mind the worth of my money.
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  1. What is an API?
    An API has different applications programs that can communicate possible
    interactions with a specific type of software. Organinizing complexity
    of a system so that complicated actions can be handled more simply.

  2. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API.
    What is the main difference between these two APIs?
    The Java API is a library of software components for anyone to install.
    Twitter is web based API - that sends data (http) like a web browser, an
    easy to use format called JSON.
    Both (as far as I get it) defines WHAT you can do and specifies HOW to
    perform those actions, but in different ways.

  3. The section in the article about abstraction is important,
    try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
    It’s when I order same type of weekly “main” products from the grocery
    store online, I can just push the button for ordering the same next week.

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  1. An application programming interface (API) allows developers to program software with pre-defined code that has had its complexity abstracted away in the process. By using APIs, developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel and build everything from scratch, and they can focus on programming their specific use case.

  2. Java API “is a library of software components available “out of the box” to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit”.

Twitter API is a web-based API and “must be accessed by making requests over the Internet to services that Twitter hosts”.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3269878/what-is-an-api-application-programming-interfaces-explained.html

  1. An abstraction in my daily life would be a microwave heating my ready-made noodles. First there is abstraction in that I don’t have to make any noodles from scratch with flour, water etc. Then there is abstraction in that I don’t have to set any cooking utensils to a predefined temperature or keep an eye on the boiling process of the noodles as they are in a pan. I just put them in the microwave and set the timer for a few minutes.
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#458

1) What is an API?
a specification of possible interactions with a software component

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Twitter API is a web-based API instead of being included in development kit as is the case with JAVA API

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
The netflix button on my remote starts up the netflix app on my TV and logs in for me

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#459

QNS 1) What is an API?
ANS: An API is a programming interface to make program interact with each other.

QNS 2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?**
ANS: Twitter API is web based WPI, whereas for Java API is a library of software components for anyone who has installed Java Development Kit.

QNS 3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life**
ANS: An abstraction in my daily life will be the recent event of the 9.9 sales, where clicking on the check out button to launch the API to connect the orders and planning on the backend, which kick start the shipping arrangements.

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1: It is a bridge that allows different programmes to communicate with each other.
2: Java API is a library of software components on the java development kit. Twitter API is a web based API that uses JSON.
3: I can use my banking app on my phone to do banking instead of going to a bank branch.

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  1. What is an API?
    application programming interface
  2. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
    Java API is a software based API included with Java, while Twitter API is web based API that interacts with Twitter
  3. The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
    Trader Joe’s is a grocery store version of an API in that they carry only the most popular and necessary items for their clientele. They sort from the world of all available groceries and provide only those that best suit their clients needs.
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1) What is an API?
The way an application can interact with software. Provide What you can do, and How you can do it.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Java API is part of a library of software codes that have been installed.
Twitter is a web-based JSON API, that makes requests to Twitter to be accessed.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
My garage door opener. I just push a button, and many complex actions take place to unlock and open the garage door.

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#463
  1. application programming interface
  2. Unlike the Java API, the Twitter API is a web-based API. It must be accessed by making requests over the Internet to services that Twitter hosts.
  3. When I want to activate the lights in my house by telling Google: “Hey Google…turn on the lights”
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