API Strategy: The Next Generation
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The document discusses the next generation of APIs and the people who will build them. It argues that the most creative and impactful APIs will be conceived and built by the next generation of developers and engineers. These students are already incubating excellent ideas through hackathons and learning to code at a young age through tools like Scratch and Lego Mindstorms. Early engagement with technology through play, not just screens, helps children develop skills in creativity and collaboration that will serve them well as future API developers.
API Strategy: The Next Generation
- 3. SWAGGER
- 4. &$(@^! Flows downhill. Let’s swim upstream a bit.
- 5. “Developers” create things that “engineers” fix ENGINEER’S MOTTO If it isn’t broken, Take it apart and fix it.
- 6. The most creative people are not developers and engineers, yet.
- 10. G(url): What’s does API spell? P(api): …
- 11. Words in a computer that make it easy to share things with the world. {…}
- 12. G(url): How do you do it? P(api): Well, do you know Ruby? G(url): Who’s Ruby? P(api): …
- 13. Brains map to what they know bit.ly/RamezNaamLeWeb13
- 14. Ruby speaks her own language
- 17. Learning and doing are the same thing to children students developers engineers
- 18. Who’s building cool APIs today? relevant transformative impactful
- 20. Student hackathons incubate excellent people and ideas (like GiveHub)
- 21. The next generation of APIs society life will be conceived, build, and driven by the next generation of people.
- 22. How early is too early?
- 27. http://www.health.state.mn.us/cdrr/obesity/pdfdocs/tvviewingfastforwardreport.pdf
- 28. Screens are not helpful, engagement is. activity socialization inclusion
- 29. Work with others, share, and simplify whenever possible.