People usually ask "Can some ELI5 what an API is?"
Hello everyone,, As the Qts. When you use an API, you're using an interface that lets the program you write control or access a program somebody else wrote. As an analogy, suppose your program is a robot and you want your robot to get into a car and drive across the city. When you drive a car, do you care how it works inside? Do you care if it's a V6 or V8? That it's a traditional gas engine, a disel, or a hybrid? All of those things affect how the car works, but those aren't the interface. The interface of a car is the steering wheel, gearshift, and pedals - plus all of the other levers and controls to access all of the car's other functions. So if you were hypothetically building a robot to control a car, you don't have to teach it how an internal combustion engine works. You have to teach it how to accelerate, brake, steer, and shift gears, by working those controls. So now let's relate this back to a programming example.
