Concept information
Preferred term
sketchpad
Definition
- Sketchpad, the first interactive computer-graphics program, originated as a graduate student's thesis project in the early 1960s. It became a foundation for graphical sciences, computer operating system (OS) interfaces, and software applications that are used in many facets of today's computer work. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Sketchpad]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sketchpad
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