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Event-Driven Programming

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A programming paradigm in which the flow of a program is determined by events, such as user actions, sensor readings or messages from other programs, with the program's logic organized as handlers that respond to each kind of event as it occurs.

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The flow of the program is determined by external events. 1
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1. Event-driven programming - Wikipedia
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In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by external events.
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