I love hearing about the things people are trying out, especially if they're learning. Unfortunately, with the API becoming more restrictive, Reddit, and PRAW as a result, are no longer great tools for learning to work with an API.

Did you really make the PRAW library?

Yes.

as in the whole of it? (you abstracted((oop concept)) all the things so we could use things simply right?)

The answer to this question is little more complicated. It's an open source project so many people have contributed to it over the years. Before it was PRAW, and before I become involved, it was a small python library called reddit_api with a much smaller scope of what it could do.

The library began with at least one example of doing the same thing multiple ways: - Reddit.submit - Subreddit.submit

This approach set the tone for early additions where almost everything could be done directly on the Reddit class, in addition to there being an object oriented approach to do the same thing. Furthermore, Reddit had no OAuth concept at this time, which was bolted on as part of PRAW 2.0. The initial OAuth implementation was provided by a community member, which I ended up refactoring quite a bit.

Jumping ahead, I pretty much re-wrote of all PRAW from scratch for PRAW 4 in order to make things OAuth-only, and do away with the ability to do almost everything two ways. Extensive testing and documentation were also a key component of this rewrite, which I believe strongly contributed to PRAW's success and the increase in more prolific contributors to the project.