Even if classes, methods, and objects are new to you, you do not need a Computer Science degree to write a useful dashboard program. Just as our automobiles are complicated collections of machinery, we can routinely drive it without understanding any of the details behind the combustion engine and all of the other electronics of the car.
Like traditional BBx programs that make use of external code or libraries, our dashboard example program uses custom utility classes to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to executing code. We can create several high-level models in a few lines of code and the Dashboard Utility takes care of building the visual representation of those models.
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