APIs can seem intimidating. Understanding of them may seem out of reach for the average beginner. Indeed, like everything else in programming, the amount of complexity involved when working with them can grow infinitely. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on working with API’s for the beginner, and to show that there is nothing to be feared.
It does not happen very often in life that we reflect upon the reasoning behind our actions. I would imagine that most human actions occur through either need or desire. Now that I have been given an opportunity to reflect upon why I committed such a major decision at this point in my life, I suppose I should take advantage of it.