Saturday, October 22, 2011

Sketchpad

Ph.D. student Ivan Sutherland uses the TX-2 computer at MIT to develop the Sketchpad computer program in 1963. Sketchpad is the first computer program to utilize a complete graphical user interface. It uses an x-y point display as well as a light pen. The program also pioneers the use of objects and instances, shedding light onto object oriented programming.
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