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CyclingMatt
7y

I started doing teaching assistance in an Introduction Course to R (for the 3rd year in a row); for the big majority of them, this is the first course where they learn some basics of coding.
Now, I know many of us were the same when we started, but sometimes I wonder... have I ever really been as lost as some students? I mean, I had to teach to a student how to move a .txt from the downloads folder to another folder. Wasn't this supposed to be the digital generation?
Even my code is never as frustrating as teaching a programming language... I forecast more rants in the following days!

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  • 1
    7y
    So much to say about this. It's not the digital generation, they're the Facebook generation. Also Mobile, I don't know about iPhones but android doesn't exactly expose the concept of folders willingly.
  • 2
    7y
    @alwaysmpe I think you are right. But c'mon, these guys are studying to become scientists. How do you go through 3 years of university and still don't know jack about a computer? What are they using it for, just porn and e-bay? 😥
  • 1
    7y
    @CyclingMatt also word and wolfram alpha
  • 1
    7y
    🤣
  • 2
    7y
    @alwaysmpe I think you're being a bit too optimist 😂
  • 0
    7y
    I once had to set up an interns full pc on their first day, they were 2nd year university student.

    They couldn't connect the monitor, keyboard, mouse and power to the pc.

    Worse, they then asked how to switch it on!

    Worse still, after another year of university they came back as a graduate software engineer. At this point they couldn't code.

    I have no idea how this person got the job.
  • 1
    7y
    @querellaMMXII wait how can a software engineer not being able to code? I mean, "software" is strictly related to "code", no? 😓
  • 0
    7y
    @CyclingMatt you'd think that, they were a physics student.

    I mean they must have blackmailed someone or something, I have no clue how they got the job.

    Makes me feel bad for anyone that lost out on that place to them.
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