- Parses through them, which means to read through this-- what are really just text files, top to bottom, left to right.

从语法上分析它们，这就是说要阅读它-,实际上是一个文本文件，从上到下，从左到右。

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Turns out they make stock data and the like available essentially via text files or via a simple API application programming interface which will be one of the themes of the course.

他们基本上是通过使用文本文件,或者通过一个简单的API应用,或者编程接口来获取股票和其他一些数据,这些都是本课程的主要内容。

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