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Realm of Racket
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Realm of Racket

by Conrad Barski M.D., David Van Horn, Eight Students of Northeastern University, Matthias Felleisen
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
312 pages
6h 47m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 5. (big-bang)

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While Guess My Number may not be the world’s most exciting game, it was easy to write. Obviously, it doesn’t look anything like the software apps you use on your laptop or phone. Now think about how amazing it would be if Guess My Number came with a full-fledged graphical user interface. In this chapter, we’ll give it exactly that. As it turns out, this is super easy.

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5.1 Graphical User Interface

Text-based games can be fun and rouse our inner geek, but they are so ’70s. Let’s move on to at least the ’80s where, at a minimum, software needs a graphical user interface (GUI), which we endearingly pronounce as “gooey.” Intuitively, you know what a GUI is because you have used a lot of graphical software applications. These ...

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