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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.
the blank stares you get when mentioning the word "directory"
Must not.. Must resist.... THEEEIIIIRRRR
Whew
I think they meant "a file path not being right in that there code".
Yikes. Blame iPhone (and Android) hiding file structure in most every app
Meh every generation has its quirks. My college class in 2000 spent 1 whole week going over the Windows Start menu...
All the education invalidated by the release of Windows 8
... 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.
I lucked out having a dad who's into computers so I had the chance to tinker with his old stuff since I was a little bwoah.
Oh no, I get why they don't know what one is. It just makes teaching coding to them very difficult.