John SiracusaSep 18, 2025

“since when does it matter where I save things to???”

My daughter enters college and discovers the file system for the first time.

Show threadKyle McMahonSep 18, 2025
@siracusa https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
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Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.

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@kmcmahon @siracusa

"“Students have had these computers in my lab; they’ll have a thousand files on their desktop completely unorganized,”

gnnayyaaaaahaa! Its like when our Boomer parents got their first computers all over again!

Sep 18, 2025 at 6:36pmWeb