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A friend of mine teaches an intro to web development course - its a 2 day thing, usually over the weekend at a co-working place that does events, and the storie
by Eumenes 2y ago
A friend of mine teaches an intro to web development course - its a 2 day thing, usually over the weekend at a co-working place that does events, and the stories he tells me are insane. These are mostly college graduates and white collar professionals who want to learn some code. They are often perplexed by the idea of a file and folders. Right clicking something is novel for some. He gives all the instructions ahead of time so they can get started right away. That first day is almost exclusively helping people get the "dev environment" setup. Its just a folder on their desktop with some html, css, and js files.
- mike_hearn 2y agoYeah this is now a common story, also for undergrads who may only use an actual computer (for anything) for the first time when they get to university. Science classes have to start by teaching the basics of desktop computing. Funnily enough, I don't remember anyone predicting this outcome when smartphones and tablets came out. It may not matter though. Desktop OS's aren't so different. Files, folders, windows, right clicking, it can all be learned pretty quickly. Compared to the rest of learning software development it's a nice gentle learning curve.