It is essential for programmers to give the user some kind of visual or auditory clue as to what the program is doing or when it has completed its operation.  Name five different ways that you can be notified by a program of its status. Imagine that you were selling circus tickets online. What are two ways you could notify users of the purchase process status?

What will be an ideal response?


Student answers will vary.

Five ways students have been notified of a program's status:
- Dialog box stating that this operation will take xx minutes, do you want to continue?
- A beep when you try to submit a form and it is not complete
- Text in red type when you try to submit a form and something on the form is wrong
- An hour glass icon showing the progress of a download
- A colored bar showing the progress of a download

Two ways to notify users purchasing circus tickets of purchase status:
- Unhappy clown face if the order did not go through with an invitation to try again
- Circus music and tumbling clowns if the order did go through successfully

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