APIs and Making Humankind Better at Programming
summary
Argues that programming is becoming literacy while computer science enrollment stays flat not growing and gender imbalance remains dramatic, and blames tooling and APIs for killing ideas. Contrasts the clumsy DOM and SOAP with elegant REST and jQuery, shows a concrete demo of two lines of Node code to send an SMS and explains Twilio’s webhooks that POST XML to your app. Describes a company policy: every new hire must build an app in week one.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:56Personal Perspective
- 3:40Software is meeting the world
- 8:52Programming is literacy
- 10:11Not embracing programming
- 11:51Fixing the problem
- 16:59APIs
- 22:18Conclusion
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