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james_s:
Directory structures are just innately logical, I cannot even comprehend how someone could have difficulty with it. I have separate rooms in my house, within those rooms I have various pieces of furniture and built in storage like closets. Within those pieces of furniture and closets I have boxes, bags, folders, and other containers. Within those various containers I have other objects.

Do kids these days live in a big empty room and just throw all of their possessions into one big pile?

And these are engineering students, not artists or language majors, sorry but I'm going to judge them more harshly and expect them to figure out stuff like this without asking the professor with help. If growing up with Google is the problem, they should know how to ask Google. If they cannot even figure this out then how can they be expected to solve difficult problems in their job and why should I consider hiring them?
james_s:

--- Quote from: xrunner on October 01, 2021, 01:49:15 am ---Yep my neighbor is the same. I help him as much as I can with PC issues but there are concepts he hasn't grasped for years as I've kept explaining it over and over. Like when he got a new PC, he wanted to know how we'd get his gmail over to the new PC. He was really worried about it. I said we don't have to move the messages because they are .. well ... look just trust me on this OK? I wasn't about to try to explain it because it would have been to no avail.

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The emails aren't on the PC in the first place, they're somewhere out in the world, and the PC is just a vehicle to take you to them. If you go out and buy a new car you don't have to find all new stores to go to, the same stores you visited with your old car are still there and the new car will take you to them the same way.
MrMobodies:

--- Quote from: m98 on September 30, 2021, 10:26:21 pm ---Seriously, someone who doesn't know such stuff by the time they're in college should really reconsider if they have enough natural curiosity to enjoy an engineering career...
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When I was about 10 I had an Atari STE and that had a file system that you couldn't help not notice especially with the non auto boot floppy discs where you'd just manually run the .prg files and I found it all quite basic and straight forward.
CJay:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 01, 2021, 04:51:13 am ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on October 01, 2021, 01:49:15 am ---Yep my neighbor is the same. I help him as much as I can with PC issues but there are concepts he hasn't grasped for years as I've kept explaining it over and over. Like when he got a new PC, he wanted to know how we'd get his gmail over to the new PC. He was really worried about it. I said we don't have to move the messages because they are .. well ... look just trust me on this OK? I wasn't about to try to explain it because it would have been to no avail.

--- End quote ---

The emails aren't on the PC in the first place, they're somewhere out in the world, and the PC is just a vehicle to take you to them. If you go out and buy a new car you don't have to find all new stores to go to, the same stores you visited with your old car are still there and the new car will take you to them the same way.

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Except you can use a local mail client with GMail and download messages so for someone who grew up using an email client with local storage it's really not a stupid question.
CJay:
I work 'in IT', we've got professors, doctors, highly qualified engineers, people who speak to and advise governments etc.

We're huge, wherevere you are in the world there's a really good chance you're relying on or are connected to a bit of our technology as you read this, if you're not right now then you probably have been or will be.
 
Some of the things I hear every week go along the lines of "I'm so stupid I don't understand how" or "I'm such an idiot when it comes to computers".

People  don't say that because they are stupid but because they are defending themselves against the kind of sneering, elitist attitudes being displayed in this thread.

Give your heads a wobble and think about how you'd feel if someone you were looking to for advice told you you're an idiot for not intuitively understanding something that you didn't need to know to do your job, don't care about or have never seen before and are completely alien to you.
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