Star The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?
Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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DOOM?
by yutt on Mon 8th Mar 2004 22:12 UTC

Pfft, Wolf3D? What about Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? That's true CLI gaming.

Very unintuitive, requiring a big manual and a lot of failed guess-work. I think there's an analogy somewhere here...