I taught a computer lab at a local university a few years before that and discovered through one unhappy encounter with an angry student a key attribute that I’

I taught a computer lab at a local university a few years before that and discovered through one unhappy encounter with an angry student a key attribute that I’d failed to apprehend previously. This student wanted to know exactly what to do when he encountered an error. I showed him my thought process for how I’d work my way back to a good known state and he was enraged. Computer literacy is in no small part a willingness to experiment and be unafraid of what can happen (or at least enough basic knowledge to know how to avoid the really sharp edges that can in fact cause harm). It’s a very difficult thing to teach.