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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Shalom says one of the main attractions of Cisco UCS is that it comes with an application programming interface (API) that gives the GigaSpaces Extreme Application Platform (XAP) management console direct access to the hardware.

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Bug-for-bug compatibility is a problem, but breaking backward compatibility would be a much bigger problem, so even as the lowest layers of the operating system are revised and rewritten, the layers that applictions talk to (the application programming interface, or API) are carefully tested to ensure that no changes are visible to the application.

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One of the big announcements it made was that Facebook was opening up its Places application programming interface (API).

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