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You don't have to "imagine," you're basically describing most of the history of viruses and Windows. So what? I'm entirely unconvinced by this sensationalist t

• asdff 3y ago
  I work with undergraduates sometimes and its amazing what we can take for granted in terms of computer literacy these days. Some of these kids haven't touched a desktop OS until they get into college, at which point they are just using like google docs and sheets and the filesystem within those webapps. They don't really get what files are, what file types are, what folders are even, and look at me like I have two heads when I say copy and paste some text to a document, save it, send it over. You think they'd be hamstrung for life but honestly, there isn't much computer literacy in the workforce from what I've seen, either. They'd fit right in. It just sucks to think about all the kids who might have gone further with computing if more of it was exposed to them, instead of locked up basically until they get into college and demoralized by a crushing CS curriculum, since highschools and middle or elementary don't really teach this stuff either.
  • jrm4 3y ago
    Are you me? :) I teach IT at a university, undergrads and grads. All of this is exactly correct. The oddest thing is explaining to people my age (I'm 46) how many of my IT students are likely less knowledgable about those kinds of basics (despite having other, to me odd, skills, like fake instagram accounts and such)