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1:47 with Craig Dennis

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Hello and welcome! 0:04
    I'm Craig and I'm a developer. 0:05
    If you haven't taken the courses listed in the prerequisites, you really should. 0:07
    We're going to be building on some of the concepts that were introduced in 0:12
    those courses. 0:14
    And I'm going to assume that you know what I'm talking about. 0:15
    There are only so many console based applications 0:19
    that you can build before you want a new way of interacting with your users. 0:22
    And I think we've just about reached that limit, right? 0:25
    Your fellow classmates were clamoring for it. 0:28
    And it became very clear that it was time. 0:30
    Your Java skills are getting fine tuned. 0:33
    So let's put some better user interaction into the applications that we build. 0:35
    A Graphical User Interface or GUI, G-U-I, provides a way for 0:39
    users of your application to interact with your application through buttons, 0:43
    fields, links, and other graphical controls. 0:48
    In this course, we're going to be creating a couple of desktop GUI applications 0:50
    using Java's recommended tool, JavaFX. 0:55
    We'll go over a brief history of the GUI and Java, and 1:00
    then we'll explore terminology and capabilities of Java Effects. 1:03
    We'll learn some GUI application design best practices and 1:07
    I'll show you where you can go to learn even more. 1:10
    Now, you don't need to have any experience at all in application design. 1:13
    And by the end of this course you'll learn best practices that can be applied 1:17
    in other areas. 1:21
    The core concepts that we'll cover here are the same in most 1:23
    present day UI development. 1:26
    The details will be different based on what you are building, of course. 1:28
    But, for example, the things that we talk about here will help you build GUI's for 1:31
    android apps, web sites and all sort of other types of apps. 1:34
    So let's get started. 1:38
    Why don't you interact with the graphical treehouse interface in front of you, and 1:40
    navigate to the next video where we'll discuss the histories of GUIs and Java. 1:43

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