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

[Joshua Herman]

I think Xe Services LLC will do the legwork for you?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Kumar McMillan
<kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Brantley Harris <deadwisdom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I disagree.  I think the best way is to call the API developer and
>> harass them repeatedly until they come over and teach you exactly how
>> everything works.  Then, since they won't see it coming, bash them
>> over the head, and chain up their unconscious body in the basement
>> where you will keep them for months, feeding them bread and water in
>> exchange for insight into their application.
>
> I stand corrected!
>
>>
>> I'm just saying, that's the *best* way.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Kumar McMillan
>> <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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