0.5.14 Manual Interpretation of Web Page

A Program Does Not Automatically Understand What a Webpage Means

In the supplied FIT weather activity, the C# application can open a weather-related webpage.

The browser displays information.

A person can look at the result and answer a question such as:

That answer can then become a Boolean value used by the program.

The important flow is:

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The human is deliberately part of the system.

Observation Comes Before the Boolean Value

Suppose the browser displays current weather information.

The learner reviews the page and concludes:

Activity diagram showing User input, then URL query parameter, then Browser request, then Server response, then Displayed web information, then Human judgment.
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You have moved from understanding the Web as a client/server system to using web information as part of a simple software decision.