Kris Shaffer shares what we should know about APIs on episode 162 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

APIs are how computers talk to each other.
—Kris Shaffer

APIs are the bones of the internet.
—Kris Shaffer

It’s interesting to see how different services offer different levels of openness.
—Kris Shaffer

You can’t blame the computers, because the computers are programmed by people too.
—Kris Shaffer

Resources Mentioned

Episode #074: The Public and Private of Scholarship
Part 1: What is an API?
Part 2: Why use an API?
Part 3: Retrieving Data Through APIs
Part 4: Posting to Medium with APIs
Data for Democracy
Data for Democracy on Medium
Mike Caulfield’s blog
Mike Caulfield on Episode #138: Digital Literacy, But Which One?
Citizenfour

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What We Should Know About APIs

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