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1.8 - User Interfaces

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  • ✓Discuss the relative merits of the various types of user interface.
  • ✓Distinguish between command-line, menu-driven, graphical user, and touch interfaces.
  • ✓Identify hardware that supports each interface type.
  • ✓Match a user interface to a suitable application.
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Your grandmother taps emojis on WhatsApp; a server admin in Port of Spain types Linux commands at midnight; a cashier in Castries navigates a touch-screen menu; a child in Bridgetown drags blocks of code. All four are 'talking' to computers, but in COMPLETELY different ways. This lesson decodes the four main ways humans speak to machines.
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Your grandmother taps emojis on WhatsApp; a server admin in Port of Spain types Linux commands at midnight; a cashier in Castries navigates a touch-screen menu; a child in Bridgetown drags blocks of code. All four are 'talking' to computers, but in COMPLETELY different ways. This lesson decodes the four main ways humans speak to machines.
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