API is a term common in professional settings and discussions about software development, but what does it mean and how do they work?

Just wondered how you guys learned the Windows API. I'm reading Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold right now. So far it seems to be a pretty decent book as far as programming goes.

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

Application programming interface (API) management can be defined as the process of publishing, documenting and overseeing application programming interfaces in a reliable and secure environment.

The project behind popular programming language Rust has revoked all API keys from its crates.io package web app. The key revocation addresses a serious vulnerability affecting Rust's package ...