What is an API? Reading Assignment

Blockchain Business Course
#524

  1. A API is an application (code and instructions) that helps programmers to communicate between a app/site and the server.

  2. Java API are rules of code for interaction within the Java program environment.
    Twitter API are rules off code for interaction which are sent over the WEB between an app/site and a server.

  3. I come in a restaurant I sit down. With in a few minutes the waiter comes with the menu card. When I sit down it triggers the waiter to get me a menu card and give it to me. I am ready to order my food!

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#525
  1. API stands for application programming interface, a concept that applies everywhere from command line tools to enterprise Java code to Ruby on Rails web apps. API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource.
  2. Java API is included in the Java Development kit where it uses out predefined commands that a user can select, whereas Twitter is Web based more specifically Json based using HTTP commands to retrieve results as scirpts.
  3. My alarm goes off at 7am every morning that is an abstraction. When ever someone clicks the doorbell i hear the sound.
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#526

1.An api is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource. 2The Twitter API is Json based using HTTP like interrogation. Having two APIs, a SEARCH API and a REST API. Java API makes use of libraries or lists of classes to deliver the info from the server. 3.If i was a trader i would to have a bot manage all my trades using an api key!

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#527
  1. It stands for: Application Programming Interface and it basically bridges the frontend and backend of an application or service.
  2. The Java API provides developers toolkits from a server. While the Twitter API provides data to the developers to interact with the Twitter data provided over the internet.
  3. Having a razor blade with balm integrated is abstraction.
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#528
  1. A simplified version of the original that programmers can interact with. E.g I can write a program to translate text on my website, which can take years. Or I can use a google translate API and plug that into my website.
  2. Twitter API queries over the web.
  3. Abstract: Get ready for work. Detail: wake up, have coffee, shower, get dressed, etc
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#529

1) What is an API?
an application program interface, a standardised method to interact / interface with an application to retrieve or deliver data.
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 the Java dev kit, Twitter API is a web based API and calls must be made over the web.
3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
A good abstraction is to be able to look at the dashboard of your car to collect important information, you don’t haveto interface directly with the motor or the tank or the oil pressure system, you just access the dashboard API and your eyes retrieve the standardized information. you can expect a very standardised interface in nearly any car.

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#530
  1. An API is an application programming interface, an abstracted way to communicate with a separate piece of software or a component. In an API the what and the how are separated from each other.
  2. Java API is a library of software components, while Twitter API is a web-based API.
  3. A button to turn on the computer abstracts away all the logic going on behind the computer, like turning on screen, booting operating system, loading user interface etc.
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#531

1- API stands for application programming interface and basically allows applications to exchange information between each other. As a “real world” example, It could be the waitress in a restaurant that gets the order from a client, delivery to kitchen and bring back to the client a meal. If there is no bug with the server API, the meal will be correct :slight_smile:
2- Twitter API is a web-based JSON API that allows developers to programmatically interact with Twitter data. Unlike the Java API, which is included in the Java Development Kit, the Twitter API is a web-based API. It must be accessed by making requests over the Internet to services that Twitter hosts.
3- If I try to unlock my front door house, I have to insert the key “requesting the information”. If that is the correct key, the locker will allow me to unlock the door. If the key is not correct, the key will not unlock the door. This same logic happens when you use API to validate clients (pages login, credit card payment and etc.).

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#532
  1. What is an API?

It’s a ready to use code that can be used to build applications in order to simplify the programmer’s task.

  1. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?

Unlike the Java API, which is included in the Java Development Kit, the Twitter API is a web-based API.

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

Ordering Hello Fresh meal boxes just by one click.

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#533
  1. Application Programming Interface.
    2.Twitter API is web based, Java is not.
  2. example of this would be " ThermalMix" a device that pretty much does everything relating to cooking for you with a touch of a button.
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#534
  1. an application programming interface
  2. Java API is for the development of code on the Java platform, the twitter API gathers information from the twitter platform
    3)Dropping my kids off at school abstraction: assuming all of the variables of the “morning routine API” come back ready to proceed we start with getting the kids into the car, belting the smaller one in, starting the car and driving to school, then stopping the car and helping get the kids out at school.
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#535
  1. an API is a specification of possible interactions with software components - it stores the WHAT and HOW information
  2. Twitter API has to be accessed via the Internet, because it is web-based. The Java API is a libary of software components available for everyone who has installed the Java Development kit.
  3. abstraction means to break down a complicated system to be handled in a simple way -> in daily life e.g. clicking on the coffemaker button in order to make a coffee -> in former times you had to grind the coffee beans, heat water, put the pulver of the beans through the hot water and wait until it run through -> nowadays just press the button and wait some seconds and you get your morning coffee
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#536

What is an API? Qs

  1. What is an API?
    Application programming interfaces which is ready to use code that can help simplify a programmers task.

  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 where application requests are sent via HTTP

  3. The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
    Netflix Movie watching by clicking play instead of going to a store, buying a dvd, putting it in the DVD player and watching :slight_smile:

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#537

  1. API is a set of possible things that a software can do. It also contains the information on how the user can make the software do those things, but it doesn’t necessarily contain the details on what happens with the software when some functionality is performed.

  2. Java API can be installed and used locally with Java Development Kit. Twitter API is a web-based API and it’s accessed over the internet to make the requests that Twitter hosts.

  3. My Uber home destination. A function inside the app that stores my address and makes it easier for me to get a ride home. It saves me the time for searching the address every time, separately order a ride and so on.

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#538

1) What is an API?
It tells the frontend server how to interact with a backend on a easy way with simple functions , this hide the details and technicalities on how the request from the client is processed on the backend.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Java API are available helpful functions to make developer life easier , so that they can save time by calling functions for more complex operations instead of write it themselves.
However, Twitter API is an interface so that any Web developer can communicate with twitter backend servers and fetch the information by calling some predefined functions.

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

1- Having lunch on a restaurant - Abstracting on the process on how the lunch is done , just use APIs: Waitress and lunch menu.
2- Watch the TV - Use an API which is a remote to control it, i dont care how the signal is displayed on the client (TV) or how is processed on the backend
3- Stay heat on winter. APIs: Radiator buttons to control temperature or switch it on/off. We dont care about how the radiator warms to to the temperature we wish to have.

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#539

1) What is an API? Application Programming Interface, usually used for the easy interaction between frontend to backend, or between code.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs? Java API is generic, you can use it and program it for everything you want, a Twitter API is specific, it is used only for the interaction 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.

To me is the easy way to consume a service; for example, I consume loyalty points from my bank, I just say to the application I want to spend my points, is only one action; behind the scene the bank goes to my balance, use a payment service, maybe a 3rd party payment service, and so on, I just pay with my points and maybe we have more than 20 interactions with APIs

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#540

  1. An API is short for an Application Programming Interface which sets the rules that takes away unnecessary complexity by allowing code to interact with another set which supports developers.

  2. Java API are rules for code set to interact with Java programable environments. Twitter API on the other hand uses JSON which is a code with more interoperability allowing developers to interact with more searches and trends.

  3. When sitting in a restaurant, you decide to order food a drinks from the menu. When the order is taken by the waiter, the chef then prepares the food while the bartender makes your drink, when complete this then delivered to your table by the waiter without you having to lift a finger. My take on abstraction.

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#541

  1. Application Programming Interface. It is a set of rules that allow one set of code to interact with with another one.

  2. Java API defines what you can do with a list. And Twitter has the search API that is for interacting with search and trends. REST API of Twitter is for the core data

  3. Abstraction in daily life; Say “Hey Google, call this person”. (Instead of opening the phone, searching the contact and clicking the bottom or typing the whole number.)

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#542

1. What is an API?
Application programming interface - ï»ża specification of possible ways to interact with a software program. The what and how information is located in the API and it also describes the way programs can interact.

2. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
The Twitter API is a Public and web based JSON API. The Java API is accessed through the Java Development Kit.

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 coffee maker. I don’t need to know how it works internally to make me coffee, the unnecessary details are hidden.

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#543

1. What is an API?
API is a computing interface in the form of a set of rules that allows two applications to communicate information.

2. In the article, the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Java API is available to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit. It defines what you can do with a List, all the ways you can format it and organize it.
Twitter API is only available online and it works by sending requests in HTML to services that Twitter hosts.

3. The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Every click on a computer button is an example of an abstraction. There are sets of rules behind that execute the commands requested. Most people only see the frontend of an application, for example, and have no idea of what’s behind it and how much work it has taken in the past few decades to get to the point of today’s easy to interact with and nice-looking pages.

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