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That's a very valid point. I remember having to help my less tech-savvy friends constantly at university. You're absolutely right that it's never been universa

That's a very valid point. I remember having to help my less tech-savvy friends constantly at university. You're absolutely right that it's never been universal in the workplace either. I have experienced endless incidents of people fiddling with projectors etc. I think my point is more that it's strange to me that people are ending up in CS programs without knowledge that certainly felt universal during "our time". I don't know how much it's a real issue though, as if you've selected CS as a course, you'll probably get up to speed fairly quickly.

ghaff 4y ago
>you'll probably get up to speed fairly quickly Or they switch majors if they decide it's not for them. As I was writing the other day, I'm not sure why CS as a technical discipline should uniquely require more than a standard high school curriculum in order to major in at university. And the fact is that very few high schoolers have learned much computer science even if they've hacked around with computers and Python a bit.
laurencerowe 4y ago
> You're absolutely right that it's never been universal in the workplace either. I have experienced endless incidents of people fiddling with projectors etc. I like to think of myself as a pretty tech savvy person (I have held director level positions in FANG companies) but having interviewed again recently I still end up resorting to quitting and reconnecting when there’s no sound on my Google Meet/Zoom meeting. With 20 years of experience I have no real idea how to start debugging the problem. Maybe the problem wasn’t with the folks struggling with the projector?
- ghaff 4y ago
  Yeah. I can assure you I've been to many events where you end up with a cluster of very technical people who present regularly and an AV tech struggling to get a projector working with someone's laptop. It's much better than it used to be but you still have random failures.

ghaff 4y ago

>you'll probably get up to speed fairly quickly Or they switch majors if they decide it's not for them. As I was writing the other day, I'm not sure why CS as a technical discipline should uniquely require more than a standard high school curriculum in order to major in at university. And the fact is that very few high schoolers have learned much computer science even if they've hacked around with computers and Python a bit.

laurencerowe 4y ago

> You're absolutely right that it's never been universal in the workplace either. I have experienced endless incidents of people fiddling with projectors etc. I like to think of myself as a pretty tech savvy person (I have held director level positions in FANG companies) but having interviewed again recently I still end up resorting to quitting and reconnecting when there’s no sound on my Google Meet/Zoom meeting. With 20 years of experience I have no real idea how to start debugging the problem. Maybe the problem wasn’t with the folks struggling with the projector?

ghaff 4y ago
Yeah. I can assure you I've been to many events where you end up with a cluster of very technical people who present regularly and an AV tech struggling to get a projector working with someone's laptop. It's much better than it used to be but you still have random failures.