Topic 29 | Juggling the Real World |
Things don't just happen; they are made to happen.
In the old days, when your authors still had their boyish good looks, computers were not particularly flexible. We'd typically organize the way we interacted with them based on their limitations.
Today, we expect more: computers have to integrate into our world, not the other way around. And our world is messy: things are constantly happening, stuff gets moved around, we change our minds, …. And the applications we write somehow have to work out what to do.
This section is all about writing these responsive applications.
We'll start off with the concept of an event.
Events
An event represents the availability of information. It might come from ...
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