What is an API? Reading Assignment

Blockchain Business Course
#886

  1. An API is an Application Programming Interface. It allows programs to easily connect to one another by taking away the complexity of having to undertake tasks manually. It is an application of pre-loaded code and instructions to help programmers to construct a software and the client to communicate with the server.

  2. The main difference between the Java API and the Twitter API is that the Twitter API is a web-based REST API in JSON format. Users of the Twitter API must connect to the Twitter servers over the internet to retrieve data from their database. The Java API is based on helping programmers make connections in a Java program environment.

  3. Most gadgets used in daily life are abstractions. From breakfast where you’d probably use milk from a milk bottle (removes the need to get milk from a cow/almonds etc). Then a shower is an abstraction where you turn a knob and you have fresh water pouring on you. The list goes on…

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#887

  1. Application Programming Interfaces specify possible interactions between different software components that aim to make it easier for developers to design them so they interact efficiently.

  2. Java API can be downloaded with the Java developer kit and run locally to help speed up building Java applications. The Twitter API is web-based and so requires the developer to make requests to the Twitter servers over the internet.

  3. An abstraction I used today is pressing the accelerator pedal in my car. A little bit of fuel was put into the cylinders in the engine and a mini explosion happened to move the pistons in the cylinders up and down, propelling me forwards. All I had to do was press the pedal.

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#888

  1. An API stands for Application Programming Interface and it allows applications and software components to communicate.

  2. The main difference between Java API and Twitter API is that Java API allows a developer to use a suite of components from the Java Development Kit to program tasks. While the Twitter API allows interaction solely with Twitter data through the internet using JSON.

  3. An example of abstraction in my life, is using Siri on my iPhone to message a friend that I will return their call all through voice commands and without physical interaction.

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#889

What is an API?

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and it represents communication and interaction with software. It is made to simplify, for an end user, a complex set of several computer instructions.

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

The main difference is that Java API is a library of software components included in the Java development kit, whilst the Twitter API is web-based and it makes request to the services that Twitter hosts through the Internet.

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

Whenever I use a food delivery app
I just select whatever I want to eat from a list of products and in a couple of minutes (sometimes hours) I receive it at home. Foe me, the user, it only involves looking at the list of food available, selecting the ones I want, putting my credit card and receive it at home; ‘behind the scenes’, there are complex computational instructions: for the restaurant to prepare the food, to the payment service to charge me, for the delivery guy to go pick my food and deliver it to me, etc.

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#890

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 available within JAVA development Kit. But Twitter API is web-based and available over the internet.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important. Try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Abstraction means hiding complexity from the end-user. Buying from online store; when the user press Submit order button, integration to a payment gateway was executed to validate and process a credit card payment, then generate an order number and send a confirmation to the customer.

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#891
  1. What is an API?

API stands for application programming interface and serves as a means to communicate with other pieces of software, web-based resources or even internally in a code base.

  1. 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 program language based set of rules and abstractions which developers use to write programs, whereas the Twitter API is web-based and is used to interact with Twitter’s open API and backend services.

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

A simple example of an abstraction in daily life is processed food products. Take refried beans, for example. I can buy a can of already prepared refried beans that can be heated up in 5 minutes. This canned miracle saves me all the time and effort that goes into buying, soaking and cooking the black beans.

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#892

1) What is an API?
API refers to the specifications 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 only allows developers to interact with Twitter data available on the internet whilst Java API is a library of software components to be used with Java.
3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Buying cryptocurrencies through my Binance phone app.

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#893

  1. What is an API?
    API stands for Application Programming Process and serves as a communicator with different types of software.

  2. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs? Twitter is a web based format to retrieve data and Java helps programmers with a kit of predefined components.

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 in my life would be my Sonos app. I can pick music based on my mood with a push of a button and don’t have to organize a play list.

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#894

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

  2. The main difference is that Twitter API is to read and write twitter data where as JAVA API is for the web to connect a client with a server.

  3. Playing a YouTube video selecting a video without knowing what happens in the background.

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#895

application programming interface-a set of rules that takes that lets one set of code interact with another and takes out some of the complexity of working back and front end development.

Java API works from a list or library that makes programming tasks easier
where as the Twitter API lets the user access specific data from the twitter sever

Abstraction- the new fuction on Netflix it chooses something for me to watch when it sees that I am indecisive, chooses from content that I have watched before and makes a prediction on something I might like now.

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#896

An API is "Application “Programming Interface” and it is a specification of possible interactions with a software component

The Java API is available to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit, however the Twitter API is accessed over the internet

An abstraction example would be making a credit card payment in my online banking - I just push a few buttons but the software APIs connect to my bank account, move the funds to the correct account to pay the credit card balance, reconcile the balances in both places, etc.

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#897
  1. An API is defined as a specification of possible interactions with a software component.
  2. The Java API is a generic kit that allows programmers to easily build while the Twitter API is web based and specific.
  3. My example of an API in my life is driving a car as the driver doesn’t need to know exactly how the car is functioning at any given time instead he just needs to know how to press the gas and steer.
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#898
  1. an API is an application programming interface. it hides the complexity behind the scenes.
  2. The twitter API is how you interact directly with twitter.
  3. abstraction: making breakfast each morning.
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#899

1) What is an API?
An Application Programming interface (API) is a preloaded set of coded rules and instructions that aids programmers in software development. It reduces coding complexity.

2) In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
Java API’s are predetermined software tools that enable interactivity between multiple apps. Software based.
Twitter API’s are predetermined software tools that enable interactivity on the twitter platform. 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.
Setting up my Canadian Crypto exchange account (Bitbuy) and enabling bank transfers.

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#900

  1. Application Programming Interface

  2. Java is a Library of software code, that allows developers to use instead of starting from scratch. Twitter is a Web based API, for the user to be able to search and create or learn how to post a tweet.

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#901
  1. On my ranch, I have automatic water that my cows and horses drink from. So the water doesn’t run continuously, I have automatic shut off when the water reaches a certain level. I don’t have to turn on the water, I don’t have to turn it off. No checking the well or any other components of the process.
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#902
  1. Application protocol interface, allows two programs to connect on the same mashine, on the local network or on the web. It is a way for different programs to integrate without the need of copying the whole complex code.
  2. Java API allows the programer to access the java developer toolkit which simplifies the use of the tools inside the toolkit. Twitter API is a web based API that allows for access to tweets and other data over the internet.
  3. When I use Ivan on techs academy everyday I only need to push a button an the lecture starts. That is abstraction.
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#903

  1. application programming interface - a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource

  2. twitter api - web based JSON api, allows developers to programmatically interact with Twitter data
    java api -library of software components included in java Dev kit,

  3. going out for drinks/food with friends - avoid preparing food/drinks and avoid clean up :cowboy_hat_face:

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#904

  1. An Api is: Application Programming Interface. It is the way programs can interact with each other. they can even communicate with each other without the use of the internet, if they are runing on the same machine or connected in other ways

  2. Java API is generic and common. Meaning that it can be used in many different ways, communicating with different programs. Twitter API is very specific that only interacts with Twitter

  3. A Kourig coffee maker. If i want a cup of coffee, i dont have to cut down the cocoa plant and exgract the coffee bean, process it, ship it, un pack it, and brew it. All i have to do is insert kourig capsul and press a button. BOOOOOOM coffee

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#905
  1. An API interacts with different software components in a programmable
  2. Java API interacts with Java platforms and Twitter api interacts with social networking platforms
    3.unlocking my truck door I only have to touch the handle and the truck knows that I want it unlocked without touching the key itself.
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