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Yeah, there's been this common belief that "you kids are good at computers" throughout my life. Yes, the kids* aren't afraid of computers in the way that some p
by leoedin 4y ago
Yeah, there's been this common belief that "you kids are good at computers" throughout my life. Yes, the kids* aren't afraid of computers in the way that some people in my parents generation are, but there's still a massive spectrum of computer ability within each generation, and it corresponds more to mindset than age.
People who are good at computers have good mental models of "systems" and aren't afraid to experiment. That's pretty much it. The individual pieces of knowledge come and go.
* The kids are in their 30s now
- ghaff 4y ago>good mental models of "systems" An Apple interface evangelist wrote a book years ago (Tog on Interface). Not really specific to Apple and you can believe or not the Meyers-Briggs data he used to bolster his argument. But it's almost certainly directionally correct that the engineers developing the software have a much better mental model of how the whole thing works and interacts than many of the users of that software.