What is MVC? | Linux Today

What is MVC?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2007

“If you read up on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design
pattern, you might find yourself a bit confused. In fact, I found
myself confused by it when I first started reading about it,
because there are plenty of resources out there to describe it, but
so many of them seem to have different flavors of MVC and different
diagrams explaining how data flows that it’s no wonder that
programmers are bewildered about it. Fully believing that I don’t
want perfect to be the enemy of the good, I’ll show a few practical
implementation details of one way of looking at MVC, primarily
focused on the Web needs.

“The primary thing you need to know about MVC is how logic can
be distributed…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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