First things first, Julia Evans is IMO great at this. jvns.ca is her website. She writes "zines" with illustrated technical concepts, and they're great.
Anyway, the most helpful analogy I encountered as I was learning was to think of an interface like a light switch.
Hides complexity from the user
Exposes methods to the user (e.g. lightswitch.turn_on()
Is extensible
Is intuitive
Credit: I first came across this description in Data Structures and Algorithms in Python by Goodrich, Tamassia, and Goldwasser
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First things first, Julia Evans is IMO great at this. jvns.ca is her website. She writes "zines" with illustrated technical concepts, and they're great.
Anyway, the most helpful analogy I encountered as I was learning was to think of an interface like a light switch.
lightswitch.turn_on()Credit: I first came across this description in Data Structures and Algorithms in Python by Goodrich, Tamassia, and Goldwasser