Not any more. I had a student not that long ago ask about the metaphor, ended up having to explain to the whole class what physical files and folders were.
I don’t wanna be that guy but are these kids becoming really dumb?
When I was a kid or teen I still knew about things that were in at least 2 3 decades before me, I even knew how to use them. And files and folders are by no means things of the past! We all still use them regularly. Especially in school/office environments.
I don’t know how to explain it but I feel like the new generation are so disconnected from the real world and live in a bubble, their domain and depth of knowledge is really bad.
Yeah directory would make more sense if we’re talking about something that contains phone numbers.
I guess it makes sense to call /proc a directory, but the things under /home? I interact with a lot of that stuff with a file manager and there’s folder icons on them, so…
It doesn’t tell me which sector of the hard disk the file data is stored when I type “ls”. it lists the files within the container in the path provided in the command line or aprovided by an environment variable or whatever. What should we call something that contains files?
In Windows the command “dir” is used instead of “ls”
Yeah they were called directories in DOS.
The icon is a folder in both Windows and in every Linux desktop environment I’ve seen. It’s not that it’s incorrect to call them directories. It’s just that it’s not wrong to call them folders.
I honestly like folders better. It’s one of the few good things from windows.
Files are in folders. That makes so much sense.
Not any more. I had a student not that long ago ask about the metaphor, ended up having to explain to the whole class what physical files and folders were.
I don’t wanna be that guy but are these kids becoming really dumb? When I was a kid or teen I still knew about things that were in at least 2 3 decades before me, I even knew how to use them. And files and folders are by no means things of the past! We all still use them regularly. Especially in school/office environments.
I don’t know how to explain it but I feel like the new generation are so disconnected from the real world and live in a bubble, their domain and depth of knowledge is really bad.
Yeah directory would make more sense if we’re talking about something that contains phone numbers.
I guess it makes sense to call /proc a directory, but the things under /home? I interact with a lot of that stuff with a file manager and there’s folder icons on them, so…
It’s because it’s a directory. It’s a list of locations for files.
In Windows the command “dir” is used instead of “ls”
Yeah a directory … that thing we need ldap for, right?
It doesn’t tell me which sector of the hard disk the file data is stored when I type “ls”. it lists the files within the container in the path provided in the command line or aprovided by an environment variable or whatever. What should we call something that contains files?
Yeah they were called directories in DOS.
The icon is a folder in both Windows and in every Linux desktop environment I’ve seen. It’s not that it’s incorrect to call them directories. It’s just that it’s not wrong to call them folders.