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have you ever shopped at a place that promised lower prices by cutting out the

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middleman although this might make things easier in the real world by not

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having to deal with a Cheesy storefront and high pressure salesman who's

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desperate for a commission the middleman or lady is actually very important in

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computer land you see the software that you use can be thought of as a club

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sandwich like stack of different programs some of which sit between

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whatever program you're inter acting with directly and the hardware itself

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because without these layers programmers

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and developers would have to code differently for every single Hardware

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configuration on the planet which would be

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impossible other layers sit between two

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different pieces of other software and help them talk to each other without

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needing to have tons of code in common

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these software layers help standardize the coding process so that programs can

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interface with lots of different stuff easily and while you might be most

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familiar with a layer called a device driver which we've actually discussed

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before and that translates program instructions and talks directly to your

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Hardware another layer called an application programming interface or API

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can be just as important but if a driver

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is already there then to serve as the link between your hardware and programs

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then what does the API actually do we'll think of it like this Windows macOS and

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Linux all provide a graphical interface

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your buttons checkboxes menus Etc that

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are easy to click on without that you'd

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be left tediously typing commands for everything you want to do like back in

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the days when Doss ruled the world or if you're a bash fan then yesterday

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similarly an API provides a simpler way

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for developers to interact with other kinds of software a really good example

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of this is social media plugins that you see on certain websites such as a news

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article that embeds tweets or a page that For Better or For Worse lets people

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leave Facebook comments under it both Twitter and Facebook have their own apis

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that they make available to web developers making it easy for them to

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bake Twitter and Facebook features into their own Pages without these apis these

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social media Giants would have to share code directly with owners of other sites

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which would be tedious difficult and possibly give away certain Trade Secrets

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but if you're a PC Gamer you might be even more familiar with Graphics apis

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such as DirectX openg and Vulcan which

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sit between the engine of whatever game you're playing and your graphics card

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driver these apis make it easier for game developers to code cool effects

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that bring your favorite characters and stories to life and to have them work

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regardless of whether you have an AMD or an NVIDIA GPU since the API can talk to

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any mainstream graphics card and as GPU

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technology advances you'll see new revisions of Graphics apis being rolled

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out that can take advantage of more powerful Graphics chips you can actually

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learn more about direct X12 and Vulcan

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as well as how game engines work in these episodes but even if you don't

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game or argue with random trolls in Facebook comments you're still taking

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advantage of apis all the time if you're a Windows user Windows has its own API

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uninspirational named the Windows API

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commonly referred to as win32 or win64

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depending on whether you're running a 32 or a 64-bit application Windows API

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makes it easier for programs to do things like talk to your devices modify

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your registry use screen elements like buttons and Status bars and much more

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without making the developer code these things directly and also helping users

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by providing a more reliable and consistent experience I mean can you

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imagine if every single program on your computer had a different looking close

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button in the corner so while apis might

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not be the usual star of the show when you're doing whatever it is you do on

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your PC or phone they make it possible for all of our disperate devices and

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software to work well with each other and Ena the massive amount of quick

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communication and high-end gaming that we've gotten used to I mean really

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anymore I picked it up from for Better or For Worse which was like already kind

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of a wellestablished comic by the time I was old enough to be reading comics