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Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)

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My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boomers are not bad with technology, at least not boomers working in tech... It's the younger guys with ipads that have no clue how anything works. :)

One teenager I met wanted to be a data scientist and had a running jupyter notebook but couldn't write a simple python loop on his own.

I asked him why, and he said he wasn't interested in learning that, he just wanted to do AI easily and get quick results. It was all about getting to the end result as quickly as possible and skipping the foundations.

This is the YouTube generation. Very impatient people. And you actually need patience to learn more difficult things...and you have to be OK with feeling stupid too.

[-] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I would be this Ipad generation, but came from the other side. I started "programming" with logic gates on some sort off app. This lead to me, disliking floats and mostly only using unsigned 8 bit intager and still feeling they are to big. Another problem of mine is that object oriented programming feels so abstract.

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