July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
390 pages
10h 53m
English
The CLI was one of the reasons people were afraid of computers. The users seemed like wizards to the casual observer as frantically typed in weird incantations to have the machine work the way they wanted it to. This appeared a bit like magic to the casual observer. This was not for mere mortals, this was only for the elite.
However, when computers became more powerful, companies began creating graphical user interfaces. These interfaces relied on using metaphors for actions. Users would be handling those metaphors and models instead of typing in commands. For instance, on a Windows computer, you can work with your directories by moving icons depicting folders about. The actual data on the hard disk is not ...
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