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What are APIs? And How Do They Work?

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A beginner-friendly guide, with a bit of Python and a lot of food analogies. Imagine you're building a weather application, and it needs to show the current temperature in Mutare. There's just one problem: you don't own any weather sensors, and you definitely don't have a meteorological database ly…

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  1. 2026-10-15 08:56 · DEV Community — AI
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