Re:The future of UI is text
by ddingus on Sunday October 11, 2015 @12:34PM
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Is there any reason why we aren't teaching a command line concept with the alphabet and multiplication tables?
Not that I disagree on how discoverable a GUI is. However, many of us got that exact experience on 8 bit computers and it proved high value.
There isn't a lot of difference for young people today. If they do learn what a command line is, options, syntax, pipes, arguments, they learn a whole lot. Done in the context of common apps they would use is a very good thing too.
Not that I disagree on how discoverable a GUI is. However, many of us got that exact experience on 8 bit computers and it proved high value.
There isn't a lot of difference for young people today. If they do learn what a command line is, options, syntax, pipes, arguments, they learn a whole lot. Done in the context of common apps they would use is a very good thing too.