User blog:ShayanAkh/API Background & Documentation

Introduction To API's
The term API is short for ''Application Programming Interface. ''An API is basically a group of small applications/components used to create a program.

We will use Facebook as our primary example. Small components (API's) of Facebook would include the Poke system, the registration system, and even the friending system. These small API's fuse into something much larger, resulting in the creation of Facebook.

About API Documentation
As Wiki Writers or Editors, a big portion of our job includes API Documentation. Since we have interpreted the meaning of an API, its much more easier to explain. Documenting the smaller components of ROBLOX (scripting mostly) would include things such as methods, events, functions, etc.

When we document differen't methods used in ROBLOX Lua, that's an example of API Documentation. The name defines itself, documenting small components in ROBLOX or ROBLOX Lua.