Explainer: What is an API?

[neeyik]

Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these and you might have even used them before. We're talking about APIs -- the golden fleece to programmers around the world. Join us as we explain just what an API is, and take a quick look at where and how they get used.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/article/2237-what-is-api/

 

[Farkinell]

An excellently written and thoroughly interesting article. Lot’s there I didn’t know, even that D3D was a subset of DirectX. I had wondered what the relationship between those two was. Good stuff.

 

[BadThad]

Great refresher article for me! Thanks

 

[pcnthuziast]

This article was api. (actually pretty informative/interesting)