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[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

I heard that some employers are having to teach new 'gen z' employees how to download email attachments...

[-] Kit 44 points 5 months ago

Gen Z struggles with file systems in general, because the vast majority of their technical experience is on mobile OS's. However, Gen Z compsci students are somehow far beyond the skill set that millennials had at their age. Or at least that has been my experience with interns over the past 12 years.

[-] SkyeStarfall 33 points 5 months ago

I guess because the Gen Z comp sci students are the people who are truly fluent in computers. We were immersed in the internet and digital technology from a young age, but also had the curiosity to go beneath the surface of them, and get a real understanding of how things work. Most people just use the technology superficially, even if they have grown up with the internet and computers.

[-] sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

100%, as a Gen Z CompSci student lol

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

I was born in 2001. I didn't use a smartphone until I was like 16. We grew up with regular computers too. I also grew up with Windows XP and 7, as well as playing Doom using DosBox. Then again I am a computer science graduate, so maybe not the best example.

[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago

Just like me, I also grew up with Windows XP and still playing Master of Orion on Linux today.

[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

So is that like, what gets the kids street cred? Windows XP usage?

Pretty cool I guess?

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Point being I've used tech from the era before smartphones.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Gen Z here. Totally agree, though I personally am a bad example for this one. There was someone in my CS class once who I was put into a group with for a project. I needed some code that they had, so I asked them to put it on my flash drive. It was taking a while and eventually I asked why. They didn't know where their IDE saved their code, and were using Windows search to try and find it. They were pretty good at actual programming, logic, etc. though.

[-] Jako301@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Tbh, that's something I can totally understand. Some programs use very obscure savefile locations, usually hidden behind 10 subfolders somewhere under your documents.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I think the teacher specified that we use eclipse, and most who didn't were using vscode. If I recall correctly, they did use eclipse. I don't remember how it handles saves, but I don't think it does that.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

Everybody always says this, but I've yet to talk to anyone who even has an anecdote of talking to a Gen Z person for whom that's true.

[-] dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 1 points 5 months ago

@AVincentInSpace
It's a part of blame shifting. Restaurants dying? It's the millenials eating at home, not the geedflation.
Home prices are through the roof? It's the milenials fault for eating avocado toast, not the lack of public housing and development & renting oligopolies.
Millenials killed industry X? Milenials didn't buy into the hype, not because they don't have money or the industry wasn't profitable.

So instead blame shifting kill the boomer in your head.

@Kit