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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Most first-world children have been armed with a laptop or similar for what, 10-20 or more years. Do they get any training in data management, I don't mean arcane topics like relational database, stacks, dictionaries, tuples etc.
I mean the basic stuff modelled on manual filing systems that Xerox and others 'invented' 50-60 years ago. That a disk drive is a storage device like a filing cabinet, that a directory is more-or-less like a folder, that a file is more-or-less like a document, that there are different types of files, just like there are invoices, reports, letters, court summons etc etc.
Why am I always having to guide the under 40s so, are others having to show them how to boil an egg or make their own avo-on-toast?
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You can be happy if they know how to use a word processor or a spreadsheet.