Might as well ask! This is for both tech and non-tech peeps
* If you are on windows, what keeps you on windows? If you wanted to switch, why and what information do you want to help resolve this?
* What is computer literacy to you? Like, you can split this off into different levels as well like basic, intermediate, expert of use a primary-school, high-school framing.
I guess if I was to give a clear constraint here, I'm interested to know what you think adults or someone who is mid-way through high-school should be capable of doing.
Bonus one as well:
* What do you think is currently wrong with computer education programs, these vary wildly but I am curious about this as well!
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Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:
in reply to trip • • •for reference, I'm a comp-sci drop-out and I've been a daily computer-toucher for the last 20ish years
-I'm on Windows because I'm a heavy gamer recreationally, and it's also a facet of my profession, so it's nice to have little headache getting games going.
-computer literacy...mmm, the lowest tier is "doesn't know the names of basic things like a window, menu, browser, etc", the next is "can do basic things like use a browser or a text editor, do basic file management, and take basic advice from others", beyond that is "can often find solutions to various issues by themselves or by searching online, and execute them on their on, though they need help with anything particularly technical", and beyond that is "professional computer toucher" which can be all sorts of jobs, whether it be programming, network management, and jobs I probably don't even know exist
I'd say in high school, a basic grasp of terms like cursor, menu, browser, and maybe even operating system and an ability to use at least a text editor and a browser fluently would be the minimum requirement (but ideally, all of that is known at the end of elementary school), with some knowledge of file extentions and an ability to make sure that they're producing files compatible with whatever programs the person they're sending files to uses
Beyond that, the next major thing that I'd ideally want high-schoolers to have would be a basic grasp of online security (or not a more instinctual sense for what might be dangerous)
With all that said, I have no clue what mandatory computer education is like, either in the US or anywhere else in the world, so I can't speak to what they're doing right or wrong at the moment
edit: oh, and touch-typing, because good gods, I wouldn't wish a lack of it on anyone in this century