[Chicago] How do you get up to speed with an api?

[Kumar McMillan]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta
<tathagatadg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi *,
> Besides RTFM, test cases, how do make yourself familiar with an api
> ... basically discovering what hides underneath and how get things
> done with it ...

The best way is to study an application that *uses* the API, if one
exists.  For example, if there is a website that makes Ajax requests
to the API you could use Firebug or Chrome tools to watch the API
calls that are made while you interact with the app.

> I found bpython from this list, and it has been fantastic compared to
> help(foo) and searching ... specifically the intellisence prompting me
> whats underneath (with the doc, and even F2-ing to the original code
> itself ) ...
>
> Any tricks, tips you want to share in this respect?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Tathagata
> Graduate Student
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Illinois, Chicago
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