• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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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.

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      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.

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        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.