What is exactly API and why we call it like that? I am learning web development, and always come across APIs. I would love to learn it through an analogy.
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API are web pages for computers. When you a human load up a website, it has menu, layout, big pictures, all with the goal of making it easy for a human to navigate through its information using eyes and hands on a pointing device. Computers don’t usually have eyes and hands with pointing devices. Instead it can speak a instruction in very specific way, like “Get User with ID 123” and API will respond in very specific ways as well that’s makes it easy for computers to understand the response.
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