No glossary for GUI in UG

[CraveToCode]

GUI and CLI term might not be clear for readers who are not tech-savvy.

[nus-pe-bot]

Team's Response

From the textbook, a glossary serves to ensure that all stakeholders have a common understanding of the noteworthy terms, abbreviations, acronyms etc.

We have decided that GUI and CLI are not noteworthy abbreviations that we ourselves have to explain, since the abbreviation and understanding of these terms are widespread globally; there is already a common understanding of this abbreviation. A quick Google search would do for those who do not understand the term.

Thus, we left these two terms out with the intention to not clutter our Glossary and end up distracting focus away from terms that actually require explanation.

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• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: A user is definitely a stakeholder of TaskMaster2103's UG. One cannot simply assume that ALL users will know what CLI and GUI means. Especially since your target audience are students. It is not specified what age range these students will be at,
so it is only natural to assume that ANY reasonably typing competent should be able to use it, meaning potentially even those in primary school in this day and age.

By that logic, you cannot assume that such students will all know what CLI and GUI means. Explaining these terms also does not take the focus away from terms that actually require explanation, since the app's entire focus is on its ability to promote speed through a CLI. This then naturally prompts the question what a CLI is. Your implementation of the app also heavily plays around with the GUI, so it is only justified to include a glossary definition for that. Additionally, there is no glossary at all. So there are no way for you to 'distract focus away from terms that actually require explanation', since there are no terms at all in the glossary right now.

Moreover, the purpose of the glossary in any case is to contextualize the meaning of the term CLI and GUI with respect to the app. A google search does not provide such contextualized information,
but instead provides GENERAL information about CLI/GUI. This may not be easy enough for students to comprehend, especially with the reasonable assumption that not all of them will be technologically savvy.

Furthermore, it is better to err on the side of caution. In your UG, there is no full form of CLI/GUI either, and the abbreviations are used from the get-go. This further necessitates the need for a glossary.

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