Link: “File Not Found”
An article about many computer science professors finding their undergraduates just don’t get the directory-based filesystem structure of computers 🙈
It does raise some interesting points. For example, maybe the students’ mental models align better with how databases work? (Which may go on to explain why I find Hugo’s file-based structure more reassuring than a database – I like nested directories; I find that comforting.) But as the article notes, toolsets are going to change over time as programmers’ mental models change.
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.