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MVC is a common framework pattern for GUI based applications, especially web and mobile. In fact, many application UX frameworks, such as JavaFX in this class, Spring MVC, Django (Python-based - used in 3240) a popular Java web framework, Jetpack Compose (the “default” framework for Android), etc. are either explicitly MVC or developers are pushed towards MVC patterns.
MVC is, in many ways, a subset of the Three-Layer architecture. The motivation is the same idea, separate the visual representation of the user-interface from the use cases of the software, which is also seperated from the data management of the application.
The “state” of the system, including the data representations of that state
The thing the user sees and interacts with
Receives user gestures from the view, and then reacts accordingly to update the “state” of the Model, retrieve information from the Model, and then update the view