• @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    And now the kids don’t know what a file path is anymore. Legit my wife is a professor, and she gets adeer in the headlight look when she is helping students debug code and she mentions a file path not being right in there code.

    Serious response, no joke… what’s a file path?

    These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

    • @Piatro@programming.dev
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      3115 days ago

      These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

      … Who grew up in a world where computer internals were abstracted away so you never needed to know what a file was or even that they exist. I wouldn’t know what a file was either if I didn’t grow up in exactly the right time frame and have a dad who hoarded DOS PCs.

    • myrmidex
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      1315 days ago

      Meh every generation has its quirks. My college class in 2000 spent 1 whole week going over the Windows Start menu…

    • fmstrat
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      415 days ago

      Must not… Must resist… THEEEIIIIRRRR

      Whew

    • NullPointer
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      214 days ago

      the blank stares you get when mentioning the word “directory”