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Hello and welcome!

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I'm Craig and I'm a developer.

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If you haven't taken the courses listed
in the prerequisites, you really should.

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We're going to be building on some of
the concepts that were introduced in

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those courses.

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And I'm going to assume that you
know what I'm talking about.

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There are only so
many console based applications

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that you can build before you want a new
way of interacting with your users.

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And I think we've just about
reached that limit, right?

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Your fellow classmates were clamoring for
it.

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And it became very clear that it was time.

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Your Java skills are getting fine tuned.

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So let's put some better user interaction
into the applications that we build.

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A Graphical User Interface or
GUI, G-U-I, provides a way for

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users of your application to interact
with your application through buttons,

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fields, links, and
other graphical controls.

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In this course, we're going to be creating
a couple of desktop GUI applications

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using Java's recommended tool, JavaFX.

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We'll go over a brief history
of the GUI and Java, and

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then we'll explore terminology and
capabilities of Java Effects.

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We'll learn some GUI application
design best practices and

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I'll show you where you
can go to learn even more.

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Now, you don't need to have any
experience at all in application design.

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And by the end of this course you'll
learn best practices that can be applied

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in other areas.

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The core concepts that we'll
cover here are the same in most

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present day UI development.

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The details will be different based
on what you are building, of course.

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But, for example, the things that we talk
about here will help you build GUI's for

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android apps, web sites and
all sort of other types of apps.

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So let's get started.

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Why don't you interact with the graphical
treehouse interface in front of you, and

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navigate to the next video where we'll
discuss the histories of GUIs and Java.