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I also agree. Today we need people who can miss the forest for the trees! I can't believe the lack of basic computer skills that people have coming into the wor
by baldfat 12y ago
I also agree. Today we need people who can miss the forest for the trees! I can't believe the lack of basic computer skills that people have coming into the workforce and someone that can use Word is considered a computer person. Even the new IT people only know GUI and Microsoft with no experience with Mac OS or Linux, and no idea about anything but the silo they are working in.
I was one of those kids who had to program games at 7 on a Sol20 in 1977 and than de-bug since every basic was different. When I found out if I could learn Assembly I could play more game I learned that. The day I got the 300 baud modem was life changing and I had to pay for a second line due to everyone else in the house being mad they couldn't use the phone.
- sthreet 12y agoTime to complain about my school. Our "computer" classes consisted of learning to: type, format word, type in a spreadsheet, format powerpoint (in a way that I think powerpoint is unnecessary for), one week total of messing around in garage band, one week of typing out the exact lines of html, copying instructions for dreamweaver. EDIT: And then we do 'job' stuff in that class. Including making resumes that include our ability to use basic microsoft/adobe programs. I could have learned to do that without a manual or internet before the class. I can learn way more with internet just messing around in photoshop/gimp every once in a while.
- baldfat 12y agoIt is time to put the science back into Computer Science and have it in Middle School and High School. My school district computer classes are business classes and the teachers need business degrees.