What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?

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      I have had multiple college freshmen taking an intro C# class that had no idea what a zip file was. How can you want to be a computer science student but be so disconnected from your own computer skills.

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        I kind of don’t think it’s that weird. I grew up with computers and I use one for work in a technical field where understanding them helps. But I also barely use one anymore other than for work or the odd game. People who grew up on phones and want to develop for phones or consoles might never have needed to use a computer but can still be interested in computer science.

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      It seems really counterintuitive, but computer literacy has taken a huge nosedive since the early days.

      I have a 9 year old son, and while it’s anecdotal I know for a fact he’s the only one in his class who knows what the different components look like and what they do. All his friends are major gamers, but they have no idea how any of it works under the hood, so to speak, nor are they able to do a proper Google search, or organize files.

      It boggled my mind when I first realized it also. At least my son got a nice headstart, as he’s already into python and stuff. I’m proud as hell, lol.

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          Minecraft can be a great tool for learning basic logic gates and all that. That’s how we started at first.

          It also helps that he’s way smarter than I was at his age, lol.

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        Good on you for getting him involved early. I’m trying to do that stuff with my nieces and nephews but they aren’t really grabbing on.

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      Not just kids. I’m surrounded by adults that need me to guide them through a simple buying process or to download files. My opinion is that the instance login is just a massive barrier that will make it impossible for the general public to make lemmy and Mastodon mainstream

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        I was a geek squad agent for several years and yeah the adults were usually more clueless than the younger clients. Computers have been a part of the work place for nearly 40 years… I’m not expecting most people to know hardware and maintenance but just being a competent user is rare.

        Yeah the instances are really confusing for a normal user. Imagine if something like discord worked like that, where you had to have a separate account for every single channel you join.