Events not equal to GUIs

The event driven paradigm is ubiquitous in modern software. Many texts introduce events when discussing graphical user interfaces, but the event paradigm extends well beyond that domain. Events also play important roles in operating systems, component based systems, reactive systems, middleware, web...

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Main Authors: Hansen, Stuart, Fossum, Timothy
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Computing methodologies > Concurrent computing methodologies > Concurrent programming languages
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development techniques
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types > Concurrent programming languages
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types > Object oriented languages
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Summary:The event driven paradigm is ubiquitous in modern software. Many texts introduce events when discussing graphical user interfaces, but the event paradigm extends well beyond that domain. Events also play important roles in operating systems, component based systems, reactive systems, middleware, web services and other fields. Computer science educators have an obligation to see that our students thoroughly understand the event paradigm and have some grounding in tools to develop event driven systems. This paper describes an upper division, computer science elective course in event driven programming. The course gives a comprehensive treatment of event driven systems. It appropriately captures the importance of the event paradigm and serves to integrate concepts from several different computing fields, including Programming Languages, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering. It also introduces students to advanced tools and packages designed for developing event driven systems. The course has been taught four times at our institution, having repeatedly received high marks from the students for both its conceptual and technical content.
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/971300.971430