3 The API: Let’s talk
This chapter covers
- Understanding APIs
- Identifying a well-designed API
- Creating good APIs
Communicating with people through the spoken and written word, gestures, expressions, and inflection is one of the cornerstones of our advancement as a species. Even across different languages and cultures, we can communicate with each other, perhaps with a bit more effort, but we can learn to convey meaning, intent, information, goals, and more.
The evolution of computers has also created many and varied ways for us to communicate with a computer, and it with us. Keyboards, mice, touchpads, voice, screens, printers, networks, motion sensors, and more are all devices that have different uses for providing communication between people ...
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