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+### Event-driven-programming
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+Event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events (e.g. user actions, thread messages, sensor outputs).
+In event-driven applications, there is usually a main loop that listens for events and trigger callback functions accordingly when one of these events is detected.