[CrashCourse CS] #26 Graphical User Interface

Douglass Engelbart

Forefather of modern GUI

• oN-Line System(NLS)
• 1964 - created the very first computer mouse
• 1968 demonstration on modern features of modern computing (bitmapped graphics, video conferencing, word processing, and collaborative real-time editing of documents) - "mother of all demos"
• It was way ahead of its time and failed commercially, but the influence was huge.

Xerox Alto

1973, The first GUI computer

• To make the interace familiar and easier to use, xerox treated the 2D screen like the top of a desk, or desktop - desktop metaphor
• many papers can be laid out on a desk - user can open up several programs up with windows.
• Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer - WIMP interface - most desktop GUI use it today.
• buttons, checkbox, sliders, tabs, ... drawn from real world objects to make them familiar.
• GUI use event-driven programming - code can fire at any time and in different orders, in response to events. Events are user driven (click, keypress, scroll, etc)
• Xerox Star, 1981 - file cabinet metaphor for file system
• cut, copy, paste - metapohr drawn from editing on typewriters
• Word processor with What you see is what you get - WYSIWYG

Apple

• Apple Lisa(1983)
• Macintosh(1984)

Microsoft

• Windows

Vocabulary

• one-off - 단 한 번의
• forefather - 선조, 조상
• seminal - 중대한, 영향력이 큰
• augment - 증가시키다
• watershed - 분수령
• culminate - (culminate in ~, culminat e with ~) ~로 끝이 나다
• moot - (형)고려할 가치가 없는, (동)제기하다
• dub - 별명을 붙이다
• cultivate - If you cultivate an attitude, image, or skill, you try hard to develop it and make it stronger or better.
• lore - 설화
• stake - 지분
• anticipate - 예상하다
• provision - 공급, 대비
• disclose - 밝히다
• entourage - A famous or important person's entourage is the group of assistants, servants, or other people who travel with them.
• bulge - 튀어나오다
• flop - 실패작
• falter - start to lose strength or momentum.
• dire - 대단히 심각한
• oust - If someone is ousted from a position of power, job, or place, they are forced to leave it.
• salvo - 일제 사격
• bitter - 격렬한
• infallible - 결코 틀리지 않는(<->fallable)

Thoughts

이번 편은 기술적인 내용보다는 제품개발과 경영 관련 내용이었는데 재미있었다. 긜고 영어공부가 되서 좋다. 캐리엔은 생소한 단어와 표현을 많이 사용한다. 나중에 원서로 영어공부 하고 싶다는 생각이 들었다.