What is an API? Reading Assignment

MBF-Lifestyle · January 31, 2021, 1:19pm

1: API I s an application programming interface that allows code to react/communicate with other code.
2: Difference between Java API and Twitter API is the Java one uses predefined commands and the Twitter one uses the issuing of an http command to bring back the results as script between the front and client and the back end server.
3:An example of an abstraction I go to the front end of a bak machine and place card, password and money amount to withdraw and the back end server processes the info and delivers my cash ATM.

Steve_Studies_Crypto · January 31, 2021, 6:40pm

1) What is an API?
An application programming interface. They take an overwhelming amount of complexity and define a relatively simple set of interactions that you can utilize. An API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resources.
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 library of software components available to only those who have installed the Java Development Kit. The Twitter API is a web-based JSON API that is accessed over the internet, via HTTP and receives a response that applications can decipher in terms of what and how you can perform actions.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Using keys to open locks to my house. I know I insert the key but have little to know understanding of the inner workings of the lock design and how that is achieved. However, I do know to insert and turn.

HereWeGo · January 31, 2021, 6:42pm

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a specification of possible interactions with a software component. It organizes the code of a software and helps developers to manage it. The term API can also be used to name the software component an API interacts with.
The Java API is used to interact locally with the Java platform whilst the Twitter API is a web-based JSON API that allows developers to programmatically interact with Twitter data.
When I receive an email I was expecting to receive I just click on its headline on my inbox and read it. I don’t have to worry about the complex journey of the email from departure from the sender’s side until it arrives to my own inbox.

adamgolding · January 31, 2021, 11:45pm

an “application programing interface”–it specifies input and output functions for something like a server-side app eg: the facebook API
JSON vs direct calls in the language
‘wife’ (immutable)

michaelmarcello · January 31, 2021, 11:54pm

What is an API?
API stands for application programming interface.
An API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource.
In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
The name of some APIs is often used to refer to both the specification of the interactions and to the actual software component you interact with.

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

The 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.

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

Jill_Brewer · February 1, 2021, 6:44am

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and basically it is the communication between the front end and the back end.
Java API works with the Java Development Kit and determines what you can do with a list, whereas the Twitter API is a web-based API that allows developers to interact with Twitter data specifically.
A simple abstraction from daily life is when I want to call some one. I just hit their number on my phone’s contacts list – or better yet ask Siri to call them. I do not have to look up their number. I do not have to remember their number. I do not have to dial their number. And I most certainly do not have to run to Utah to have a conversation in person.

Bulky · February 1, 2021, 2:06pm

1) What is an API?
API stands for Application programming Interface, it is a specification of possible interactions with a software component. within a API you are defining what a software component can do and how the software component will be able to do that.
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, it uses a internet connection for requests to services that Twitter hosts. The Java APi is a library of software components “out of the box” for anyone who wnats to develop in the JDK.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
A mail message for example, i type the mail and push the send button and the mail is sen tto the recipient who can be anywhere and on any device, however receives the mail, without the need for me to jump in a car or on a bike and try to locate the recipient to deliver my message.

Jones · February 1, 2021, 2:59pm

API refers to Application programming interface which means that it interact with separate software and sources programmatically.
With Java API you get good productivity from developers who have all the java kit, because it has a lot of tools. One of the fundamental tools that are performed by Java Api is how it defines what you can do with a list. The twitter API is web-based JSON API that only is used for twitter services.
Every Sunday I do a big quantity of homemade muesli at home for all the week, and the recipe is easy but needs a lot of ingredients (oats, dry fruit, spices, grains, etc), when it is finished I have a complete homemade muesli. It saves me a lot of time and work to do my breakfast each day. This is my weekly “abstraction” !

Alexcus · February 1, 2021, 3:06pm

API is an application programming interface that allows the communication between Frontend and Backend
The main difference is that Java API is included in the Java Development Kit while Twitter has a web-based API that must be accessed by making Internet requests to services that Twitter hosts.
My headphone: I can say “play playlist A” and automatically the headphones connect to my phone, open spotify and then play the songs from playlist A.

shonesto · February 2, 2021, 5:49am

1) What is an API?
API is a set of instruction all put together to communication between programs and application easier
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 can be used with many applications whereas Twitter API can only be used 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.
I don’t have to go to a department store anymore. I just do a few clicks and my package is delivered.

William_M · February 2, 2021, 10:02pm

What is an API? it’s an interface that allows the interaction between separate programs
In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs? The Java API can be used on the developers computer without being connected to the internet whereas the Twitter API is web-based and requires an internet connection to be able to interact with it.
The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life. I have multiple email accounts across multiple esp’s like gmail, yahoo, live, and work. I would have to log into each account to check my emails, but the “mail” app on my phone integrates with each one via SMTP and POP3 or IMAP and allows me to open one app and quickly scan all my email accounts.

Edvins · February 2, 2021, 11:01pm

What is an API?
○ Application Programming Interface - a means of interacting with an application in a very simplified format - making it easier to accomplish complex tasks,
In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
○ Java API - included in and is part of the Java Development Kit,
○ Twitter API - a web-based API. It must be accessed by making requests over the Internet to services that Twitter hosts.
The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
○ I have a “good night” event for my Home Automation system that, at a touch of a button ensures that:
§ The doors are locked
§ Garage door is closed
§ All lights are off
§ Thermostat turned down

Aiisnotbad · February 3, 2021, 2:57am

1) What is an API?
Application Program Interface. Basically a layer between two applications that enables the two apps to 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 basically a web service with a set of rules. The Java API is a code library that permits the developer to use the Java environment.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Reading a book. There are no details on how I read precisely. The “how” would be the “implementation”.

barney · February 6, 2021, 12:07pm

Reading Assignment: What is an API?

What is an API?
API stands for application programming interface, and is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource.
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 available “out of the box” to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit.
Twitter API is a web-based JSON API, and it will need to be connected to the internet.
The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
If I use services, f.ex. like a restaurant, where I only need to point out what meal I would like to have from the menu, and it will be cooked and served with all the ingredients that are collected from many different places.

fabianvon · February 7, 2021, 12:50am

What is an API?
An API is defined as a specification of possible interactions with a software component.
API would include information about what it can do.
It would also include information about how you could make it do those things.
The what and how information come together in the API definition, which is abstract and separate from the application itself.

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 available “out of the box” to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit.
The 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.

The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Abstraction is just a way of organizing the complexity of a system so that complicated actions can be handled in a simple way.
My example - the buttons my mobile phone, for banking.

EllenM · February 7, 2021, 12:50am

API stands for Application Programming Interfaces, and is a specification of possible interactions with a software component.
The main difference is the Twitter API is web-based while the Java API is available through the Java Development Kit installation.
Using an automated teller machine (ATM) would be an example of an abstraction.

Alzxcvb · February 7, 2021, 1:52am

1) What is an API?
API is the software that allows you to interact with some existing systems or programs.
2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
twitter is web based API so when your program does an http request instead of getting back a human readable webpage it gets back an easily parsed format of data. Java API is included open source in the SDK
3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Abstraction is online banking or interacting with a computer. something complex made more simple and user friendly

Bacon · February 7, 2021, 3:04pm

API is Application Programing Interface. It is mainly used for obtaining data from an external source. This communication can go both ways.
Twitter API is a web/html based api that sends html requests but is limited on what information is available. Java API is part of the javaSDK. It a library of software components that easily integrates with java script.
Abstractions hide certain details and only shows the essential features of the object. It also helps to reduce code duplication.

JdRoberts · February 7, 2021, 7:14pm

Application Programming Interfaces
The Twitter API is a web-based to interact with Twitter data. Unlike the Java API, which is included in the Java Development Kit, and is library based.
During the lockdowns of 2020 we regularly ordered food delivery from local restaurants online. They had the option to save your order for upcoming orders. Thus, when we would want to order from them again all we had to push was the repeat previous order button. Our address, payment, etc was already stored in their system and it only took us 1 click.

T.O.B · February 8, 2021, 1:48am

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?
The Java API defines what you can do with a List and how to perform those actions. It is library based.
The Twitter API tells us what we can do with data, and how to interact with it. It is web-based.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
An abstraction is the concordance of multiple particulars into an identity.
All things are greater than the sum of their parts, so to speak.
Our phones are a set of multiple components, both physical and in terms of programming that become tools for a given purpose that coordinate in a manner that the phone itself becomes a singular, multipurpose tool.