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Aye, I second this, got me really pissed off when fellow CS student told me he has ''experience'' in using Iphone extensively, and that counts towards computing

Aye, I second this, got me really pissed off when fellow CS student told me he has ''experience'' in using Iphone extensively, and that counts towards computing. Makes you wonder what does computing mean to people nowadays.

mrexroad 9y ago
I ask this out of genuine interest... why does it matter? Why’d it piss you off?
- Hextinium 9y ago
  Not OP but, it's the classic Dunning-Kruger effect, they know so little about how to use a computer that they think that using a iPhone is a skill that is equivalent. This usually isn't a problem for most people but this person is in CS, where you would expect them to have at least passing knowledge in computers to join the major.
  - mixmastamyk 9y ago
    It is a computer, of a different design.
    - yousir 9y ago
      A jet fighter is a computer with wings. I don't think we should expect pilots to be computer literate the same way a software programmer needs to be.
      - mixmastamyk 9y ago
        Was correcting several statements that mobile devices aren’t computers. Lots of “computer knowledge” had to be aquired in the 90s due to the poor design of wintel boxes.
  - mrexroad 9y ago
    Again, why? FWIW I have a fancy degree in computer science and spent my childhood rebuilding and scraping together old 2/3/486 boxes. Yet I think it’s terrific that someone would be interested enough to enroll in a CS program without having wintel/Linux boxbuilding trivia knowledge. The perception of what makes a viable CS major needs to evolve past what those born during the “Personal Computer” era think it should be.
    - Hextinium 9y ago
      I do agree with that and I have seen quite a few brilliant programmers be born in classes but there is a point where you start to expect them know some basic stuff like what a router, IDE and script are so that I don't have to explain them in full just to say how to make something work.

mrexroad 9y ago

I ask this out of genuine interest... why does it matter? Why’d it piss you off?

Hextinium 9y ago
Not OP but, it's the classic Dunning-Kruger effect, they know so little about how to use a computer that they think that using a iPhone is a skill that is equivalent. This usually isn't a problem for most people but this person is in CS, where you would expect them to have at least passing knowledge in computers to join the major.
- mixmastamyk 9y ago
  It is a computer, of a different design.
  - yousir 9y ago
    A jet fighter is a computer with wings. I don't think we should expect pilots to be computer literate the same way a software programmer needs to be.
    - mixmastamyk 9y ago
      Was correcting several statements that mobile devices aren’t computers. Lots of “computer knowledge” had to be aquired in the 90s due to the poor design of wintel boxes.
- mrexroad 9y ago
  Again, why? FWIW I have a fancy degree in computer science and spent my childhood rebuilding and scraping together old 2/3/486 boxes. Yet I think it’s terrific that someone would be interested enough to enroll in a CS program without having wintel/Linux boxbuilding trivia knowledge. The perception of what makes a viable CS major needs to evolve past what those born during the “Personal Computer” era think it should be.
  - Hextinium 9y ago
    I do agree with that and I have seen quite a few brilliant programmers be born in classes but there is a point where you start to expect them know some basic stuff like what a router, IDE and script are so that I don't have to explain them in full just to say how to make something work.