In this post, the tutor speaks from experience, rather than formal education.

Event programming (aka, event-driven programming), as I understand, focuses on designing interfaces that react to user input. What happens when the user clicks a button? What happens when they press enter? Specifying what should happen – then making sure it does – is event programming.

You could pose the idea that video game programming was the first event-driven programming. However, I’d argue that event programming as we know it today barely existed when I was in university (I got out in ’95). That’s because nowadays it seems inextricably connected with web design.

This post contains a little example of event-driven programming. On the choice menu below, you can select a color, then click the button to change the text of this paragraph to the color you’ve chosen.

Event programming is often coded in Javascript. It’s another computer language I’ll be discussing in future posts.

PS: Event programming is not to be confused with event planning, which is well beyond the tutor’s experience:)

Source: w3schools.com

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