#33 Event-Driven Programming Part-1: GUI example, events, event-loop, run-to-completion, no-blocking

This lesson starts a new segment of lessons about *event-driven programming*, which is an important stepping stone in understanding modern software of any kind, not just modern embedded programming.

In this lesson, you will learn the main concepts of event-driven programming based on its origins in graphical user interfaces (GUIs), which went mainstream during the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. Specifically, in this lesson, you will see the most important characteristics of event-driven programming exemplified by the original, low-level Win32 API in C, which demonstrates the main concepts of event-driven programming in their simplest and most direct form. With this background, in the following lessons, you will see how these main characteristics of event-driven programming can be applied to real-time embedded systems, such as your TivaC LaunchPad board.

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Resources:

Companion web page for this video course:

GitHub repository for projects for this video course:

Transcript of this lesson:

Video Credits:
This lesson uses short clips from the following YouTube videos:

Xerox Star 8010 GUI

Music credits:
The background music comes from:

[StateMachineCOM]

NOTE: The source code, as presented in the video, might cause compilation errors with the newer MDK-ARM / uVision toolsets. This is because the underlying compiler in MDK-ARM has been changed to "Compiler-6", while the older "Compiler-5" is considered now obsolete. The updated code that compiles cleanly with "Compiler-6" is available from the companion website at:


and from GitHub:

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