The White House development team drew on feedback from the hackthaon to improve the API and is adding code from its projects to a software development kit (SDK).

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In the simplest terms, an API is a set of code conventions which programmers can use to interact with an external data source or web service.

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Gone, the days when programmers just wrote code to the application programming interface (API) and put it on the market directly.

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