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I call that: “home delivery” mode. Someone has created, followed a recipe and cooked the meal. You only need to pick from a list, have it delivered & pay for their service+effort+tip.
If you want to cook the meal yourself, you are going to have to learn “developer mode”.
1. Set up your kitchen, pots, pans, utensils, measuring spoons and cups, food processor, etc.
2. Find or make the recipe + instructions + ingredients for the meal.
3. Spend the time and effort making the meal.
That’s a great tip and I did not think to “validate” my assumption that the explanation/understanding/mental model gap was GUI vs CLI.
I observed that they only interacted with the /Documents folder and were confused why “c:/Users/(user name)/Documents” was the “place/location” on their hard disk.
@futurebird I really wish there was a “tool” for exchanging mental models between people.
I really struggled to explain why and how both perspectives were displaying the same “object” in such different ways. That was a recipe for confusion.
(Note: I’ve been using computers since MS-DOS 3.0, have used Windows, MacOS and Linux for decades)
@futurebird do you have any Andragogy suggestions for teaching people, who are not developers, about computer file system?
I work with someone who was essentially setting up a developer environment for Javascript on their windows laptop from GitHub repository. It was a challenge to explain what a terminal is & how directory structure listed using “due” command relates to the file explorer “folders” as the views are completely different.
Any links/refs to beginner resources would be appreciated.