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0 pointscmcaleer2y ago0 comments

Directory structures is the ‘skill’ I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints about students not understanding. Particularly annoying for those teaching first year undergrad SWEng, since the gap between those self starters who have some idea of what’s going on and those who don’t really care and we’re pressured into it by parents is larger than ever.

It’s pretty unfair on those who have done the bare minimum amount of experience with computers that they have to sit through (and pay for!) being taught ‘this is what a file structure is and how it works’ for a not-trivial amount of time.

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erremerre2y ago

Directory structures is a skill that most people with low computing knowledge always failed. I went to a GIS course, and people had troubles following because they saved their work (like click on save button, write a name and click accept) but then they were oblivious in whatever folder had been saved (they were computers from the lab/course) and couldn't find them.

Also not understanding what a zip file is, (just a weird folder that sometimes fails).

I am not surprised it is being the very same case with new generations. But before people were saving things in their desktop, now they just use the most recent function.

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erremerre2y ago

Also not understanding what a zip file is, (just a weird folder that sometimes fails).

I am not surprised it is being the very same case with new generations. But before people were saving things in their desktop, now they just use the most recent function.

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