17.1.1 - Key Components
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Practice Questions
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What is an event in programming?
💡 Hint: Think of actions like clicks and key presses.
Define an event handler.
💡 Hint: What do we call it when a function responds to a user's action?
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What does an event represent in programming?
💡 Hint: Think about user interactions and system messages.
True or False: An event loop continuously monitors for events and processes them.
💡 Hint: It never stops running unless the program is terminated.
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Design a simple event-driven program structure where clicking a button triggers an alert, including the event, handler, and loop.
💡 Hint: Think about how GUI frameworks handle user interactions.
Critique a code snippet of an event-driven program that lacks a well-defined event loop. Identify potential issues.
💡 Hint: What happens if the event handlers can’t be reached?
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