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James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 PointsDoesn't API mean "Application Programming Interface", not "Advanced Programming Interface"?
Zach starts off the video about JSON by describing API as the latter. I think that's incorrect. http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-build-a-wordpress-plugin/connecting-wordpress-plugins-with-3rd-party-apis/json-as-an-api
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Ruksin Sangrugee
2,786 PointsI think Zac might be right on that, according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_(disambiguation)
James Andrews
7,245 Pointsyes it does.....
James Andrews
7,245 PointsJames Andrews
7,245 Pointsit looks like it started out with "advanced" but is now more commonly known as "application" some people can't let go of the past. ;-)
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 PointsJames Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 PointsI'll be darned, I never knew that. I've known it as "application" for at least a few decades.