Crash Course Computer Science #26 - Graphical User Interfaces

Graphical user interfaces can also be called

• visual data display

• intuitive design

• point and click

• imagine based design

The forefather of modern GUIs was

• Steve Jobs

• Steve Wozniak

• Douglas Engelbart

• Vannevar Bush

Engelbert believed...

• human problems were growing faster than we could solve them

• computer were an interesting, novel pastime

• computers were a way to enhanced human intellect

• computers were only for automation

Douglas Engelbert and Bill English created the first

• computer monitor

• graphics card

• computer mouse

• computer keyboard

Though Engelbart's mouse was a commercial failure, it was a huge influence on computer researchers of its day. What year did Engelbart receive the Turing Award for his contribution?

The first true GUI computer was the Xerox Alto, which was built around a concept people would easily recognize. Hence it was designed to resemble

• folders

• a desktop

• windows

• icons

The Xerox Alto, and most modern computers, use a __ interface.

• WIMP

• BOSS

• SADL

• DISK

GUIs use ______; code that can fire at any time and in different orders that the user does like clicking a button.

• application-driven programming

• user-aided design

• user-device dialogue

• event-driven programming

What event will trigger the example function?

• a click

• the mouse moving

• hitting the Enter key

• spinning the mouse wheel

The Xerox Star released in 1981 and extended the desktop metaphor to include

• windows

• folder

• filing cabinets

• pieces of paper