Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
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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visitor: how to use this?
me: oh, very easy. you just 'click' on this button.
visitor: 'click' ?
me: (realized that he never use computer or GUI before)
i mean you use a mouse, here is a mouse.
(i point him to the mouse)
you use the mouse to 'push' on this.
(i point him to the monitor
-- i use the word 'push' bcoz what to click is a (GUI) button)
visitor: oh, great. very easy.
...
then he pick that mouse up,
and really 'push' it against the monitor.
i can't do anything -_-"