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[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've seen people comment about needing to teach folder and file hierarchies to young people in CS classes because they grew up with cloud services and auto-save. Dunno how widespread that might be.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've had to teach folders, file types and extensions to lots of ~18 yo. When I ask them where they saved a files they get confused and generally respond with something like "on the computer".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Forget the 30 year old boomer, I present to you: the 18 year old boomer!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I am a sophomore computer science student and when I entered freshman year I was very surprised as well. Just last week, I was helping some kid with his intro C++ final and the entire semester, the guy has been saving everything to /downloads. He was wondering why every new program he made in Visual Studio failed to work. It kept messing up because he was in the same directory all the time messing about with the other 5 or so programs he made beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cloud services like Drive etc have folders anyway.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you can also just upload everything into one giant file orgy. I'd wager most people take that approach.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Animals. Utter animals.