What is an API? Reading Assignment

Blockchain Business Course
#162

Sorry Ivo, My Mistake!
3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
When I use the elevator I just press the button and I am on the right floor. I do not care about the wires that are taking it up and the program that is making it running, I just use it.

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#163

  1. What is an API?
    API is an application programming interface, it permit you to interact with a separate software component or resource.

  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 used on your application locally, permit you to save time because programmers don’t have to start from scratch every time.
    Twitter API, based on JSON permit you to communicate with Twitter data over internet.

  3. The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
    when i have to remember something, i don’t have to know how my brain works and give istruction how to do it.

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#164

  1. Application programming interface. An API can be used to interact with another software from another resources.

  2. Java API is installed in the client and contains the common tasks and programmers don’t have to start from scratch. The Java API uses a List of actions to perform certain task.
    Twitter API is a web-based API and the requests are made through the Internet to the services that Twitter hosts.

  3. When attending a seminar or training event, I take notes using abstract words instead of full sentences. This will enable more content coverage of my notes.

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#165

1) What is an API?
An API (Application Programming Interface), is a set of code allowing direct communication and interacting between data sets, applications and devices.

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 enabling simplified programming tasks with Java.
Twitter API: Allows users to interact directly with the Twitter database to access requested information.

3) The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
Using Papa Jones Pizza eats is a typical example of everyday abstraction. I can order and receive a meal without being involved in the complicated interactions behind the scenes.

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#166

1) What is an API?
An API is defined as a specification of possible interaction 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?
The Twitter API is a web-based JSON API that allows developers to programmatically interact with Twitter data. Java API is included in 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.
When i send a package to one of my clients i dont have to deal with all of the infraestructute like drivers, the car that comes to my house for the package, etc i just call and say that a package has to be picked up from my house and has to get to that direcction.

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#167

  1. An API is a pre-made set of rules that takes away the complexity of having to manage and undertake each task manually.

  2. Java API is a library of software components on the other hand, Twitter API is a web-based JSON API.

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

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#168

  1. API stands for application programming interface. It is defined as a specification of possible interactions with a software component. Basically its a way for programs to interact with each other through simple interfaces that hides all the complexity thats behind the scenes.

  2. The Java API is a library of software components that can be used by anyone who installs the Java Development Kit, while the Twitter-API is a web-based API that must be accessed over the internet by making requests to services that Twitter host.

  3. Every now and then i sit down in my car, take my car-key and start up the car. The car responds by powering up the engine, infotainment-system and all that comes with it without me knowing how any of that complexity actually works, which i dont have to as long as i drive safe and the car doesn’t run out of gas. I sit and enjoy nice music in a perfectly temperatured enviroment in peace driving towards my destination.

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#169

HI,
1, It specifies rules/how front-end application + user communicate with back-end app/server ( or opposite way)
2, Java API- it simplifies usage of Java for developers- its library of Java content to use, so programmers don’t need to do it again and again. Also its part of Java Development Kit- so it needs to be installed. There are no rules how you can use it.
Twitter API- is web-based- accessible only trough internet, information comes from server and there is set of rules how you can information you receive use.
3, Today i ordered new CPU- i never seen that CPU in real, i was not physically in the shop, nor i physically paid for it, i was not in contact with CPU factory to get one, or with delivery company. I just clicked 3 times and its done.

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#170
  1. API is an application programming interface. It is defined as a specification of possible interactions with a software component
  2. Java API is an SDK for development time, the Twitter API is web-based JSON formated data.
  3. I can use VPN and work from home instead of going to the office. So I can be virtually present at the office.
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#171
  1. Application Programming Interface- Way for programs to interact with each other
  2. Java API is a library installed on the Java Development Kit, making programming much easier.
    Twitter API allows for the interaction with data through HTTP over the internet.
  3. Abstraction would be to send someone a message, photo or file without knowing how the program or app works.
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#172
  1. Application Programming Interface. An API makes it easier to develop an applikation without knowing its core programming language. Uses a preset of objects or events that can be connected in an easy way and create new applications.
  2. For Java API you need to download a developer kit on your computer, but with Twitter you can develop from a internet interface.
  3. A personal alarm. You can larm security with one push of a button, but you don´t have to know how this gets done.
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#173

1] A specification of possible interactions with a software component

2] Java API is ab out-of-the box API that’s included in the Java Development kit. Twitter API is web-based and ia pecifically for making requests over the internet to services that Twitter hosts.

3] TV remote control - It has various function buttons, which when pressed, send instructions to the TV (via infra-red) to perform tasks, such as change channel, increase volume, turn on/off

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#174
  1. Application programming interface
  2. the Java API, which is included in the Java Development Kit, the Twitter API is a web-based API.
  3. A mobile phone.
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#175

  1. An API is an interface between human and computer that makes it easier for the human to communicate with the computer (code) without knowing all of the details of what it is doing. Without APIs, every programmer would have to do everything from scratch for each new product.

  2. Twitter API allows you to do very specific things related to Twitter, whereas Java API allows you to do certain things using the Java language (much more flexibility).

  3. An abstraction from my daily life would be pressing a button on a remote to turn on a TV, or using an intuitive program like Photoshop to edit a photo.

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#176

  1. What is an API?
    A way to interact with a separate component or resource.

  2. In the article the author compares Java API to Twitter API. What is the main difference between these two APIs?
    Java API
    A library of software components available “out of the box” toJava developers use to interact with the Java platform.
    Twitter API
    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. The section in the article about abstraction is important, try to understand it and write down an abstraction from your daily life.
    A daily abstraction is using my bank app on my phone to check balances and make deposits or send payments.

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#177

1- An API is an interface that abstracts functionality in order to make interaction between systems easier.
2- The main difference is that the Twitter API sends http request over the internet, whereas the Java API is built in the JDK.
3- Using internet, just turn on the wifi and start navigating through the web, while it has a complex system of ports, requests, etc. involving both hardware and software.

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#178

1- API stands for application programming interface and it is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource. A concept that applies everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise Java code to Ruby on Rails web apps. An API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or resource.

2- 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- For example instead of going to a book shop and enquiring to the owner that I am looking for a specific book, I can use an app like amazon and ebay to find out everything I want to know about that book. I will be saving time, as on those websites I will be able to find all the info I need about the book and it will be delivered to my door.

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#179

  1. An API (aplication programing interface) is a specification of possible interactions, rules (What/How) with a software component.

  2. The Twitter API is a web-based that allow developers to interact with Twitter data. Unlike the Java API, which you can get from the Java Development Kit.

  3. The goal keeper dilemma when a penalty is shot :wink: more seriously, “when I drop a letter in a mail box to my lover” :wink: The letter is picked up by postman, put in a bag with plenty of other cards, letters, sent to postoffice facility, cards, letters are being organized for distribution, postman gets the letter and drop in the mailbox of my lover. My lover goes to the mailbox, opens it, retrieves it, read it and hopefully if back end has been well set up, she smiles, she gets butterfly in her bully the sky becomes pink, light is shining! :wink:

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#180

1. What is an API?
An API (Application Programming Interface) is an IT solution that allows applications to communicate with each other and to exchange services or data with each other.
It is actually a set of functions that facilitate, through a programming language, access to the services of an application. These interfaces are everywhere even if we often do not see them.

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 software library accessible to anyone who has installed the Java Development Kit.
The Twitter API is a Web-based API and therefore requires the use of 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.
When I use a photocopier. I put a document on the glass, I press a button and a copy of this document comes out on the other side of the copier.

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#181
  1. API stands for Application Programming Interface.
  2. Twitter API is an example of a web based API. It deals more with API Intergration where a developer or platform must interact with services from or data held within Twitter or other Twitter data repositories. The Java API is related to an SDK or Software Development Kit.
  3. The remote control on my old CD player (yes, I still have one) is an abstraction layer. I use the forward, replay, stop and pause button to stop the CD player without having to physically touch the unit. A software example would be my FitBit. It saves my sleeping and heart rate information on a server. When I want further statistics, it allows me to query them by week or month at the touch of menu.
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