RE: API doc question

[<laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com>]

I'd say the right answer to the interview question would be to provide
detail about the API docs you've done (type of information, type of API,
tools used -- all the things folks have been mentioning in this thread)
until either you run dry, or the interviewer stops you (or asks you
follow-up questions to focus you more on whatever it is she was
interested in). Keith, your second post would've been a fine answer.
Shame you couldn't come up with it at the time, but of course that's the
awful thing about interviews. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Hood [mailto:klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:28 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: API doc question

I had a phone interview yesterday with someone who wanted details about
my experience with API documents. One of the questions asked was, "What
kind of API documentation have you worked with?"

Here's the (stupid) question - is there more than one type? 


Obviously I didn't get the job. (I messed with API docs once, for about
a year, and that was over 4 years ago.)


      

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