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Both of my parents are IT professionals and former CS professors. If you're substantially older than I am (I'm 24) it's not hard to imagine assuming that everyo
by goodside 15y ago
Both of my parents are IT professionals and former CS professors. If you're substantially older than I am (I'm 24) it's not hard to imagine assuming that everyone's parents are clueless about programming, just for generational reasons, but you're not going to be able to assume that forever.
- adrianN 15y agoIt is fairly safe to assume that a random person from the population is clueless about programming, regardless of his age. I think the correlation between your programming abilities and the programming abilities of your parents is low enough to assume them to be clueless.
- mayanksinghal 15y agoI am not, I am just 22. And while my parents are professors (no CS), they are not so comfortable with computers as I am. Now, this is true for most parents - and when someone uses the phrase "Explain it to your mom/dad" it is not meant to be interpreted as "Explain it to dumb cavemen" and it is not, in most cases (if the content of the actual explanation is not dumb). If some one has Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie or Steve Jobs, they are (1) Lucky (2) Minority. I am not sure whether the statement "Explain it to your mom/dad" would be offensive to them. Point I am making is this: 1. Explain it to X. Where X is known to be a minority should be an acceptable statement. If substituting X with "Black people", "women" etc are the only cases, where the statement becomes offensive - it is unnecessarily tabooed. 2. (Also in reply to the other sarcastic reply to my comment) The mom/dad example is not the one where you have choice. The context of the statement has little to do with the choice and more to do with numbers in the industry.