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Larry Tesler, an Uncommon card
Lawrence Gordon Tesler was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Larry Tesler quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Larry Tesler card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Tesler ______ at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!.
Answer
worked. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. From the Larry Tesler article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Boat building. Boat building 74 · Mamy Ravatomanga 71 · Larry Tesler 67 · Maria Gaetana Agnesi 64 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!.
- While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface for the Xerox Alto.
- During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Larry Tesler article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Larry Tesler
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Mamy RavatomangaUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 58
- Émile GalléUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 61
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- Arbër ZeneliUncommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 61
- Dallas County, AlabamaUncommon · Society · ATK 70 DEF 59
- Mariss JansonsUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 58
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Larry Tesler (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Yahoo! Blog from Sunnyvale, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
