Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Apr 16 2022 18:55:34

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Sun Apr 17 2022 01:09 pm

 bo> People should still learn basic concepts, such as what files are,
 bo> directories, how to interpret file sizes, where files go, copying and
 bo> moving, how to create and extract archives. Also some basic programming,
 bo> perhaps python but I'm not sure. BASIC was ubiquitous when I was young, so
 bo> if you learned that, you could get your computer to do whatever
 bo> computation you wanted. I'm not sure what the modern equivalent is, and
 bo> perhaps the fact there isn't one is a problem. 

 bo> And this is where things went wrong, we went from computers which by
 bo> default when you started them, you could program and instruct, to ones
 bo> which are now platforms, only a host for someone elses program. 

I don't think people should have to know how to program in order to use a computer, but it's good to know the basic concepts about what files & directories are, how to run programs, etc..  IMO, knowing how to program vs. using a computer is like having mechanic skills vs. just knowing how to drive a car.  You don't have to be a mechanic to drive a car - and I don't think a computer user would necessarily have to know how to write software.  But the more you know, more power to you.  Computer operating systems these days at least have some kind of scripting language - Linux and Mac OS let you write Bash scripts, at least; Windows has its batch language and now PowerShell (starting a few versions back).

Nightfox
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