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.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Oh no, I get why they don't know what one is. It just makes teaching coding to them very difficult.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meh every generation has its quirks. My college class in 2000 spent 1 whole week going over the Windows Start menu...

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

All the education invalidated by the release of Windows 8

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Yikes. Blame iPhone (and Android) hiding file structure in most every app

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

the blank stares you get when mentioning the word "directory"

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Must not.. Must resist.... THEEEIIIIRRRR

Whew

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think they meant "a file path not being right in that there code".