I’m a Japanese young engineer and same generation. I've encountered a similar situation.
There were many colleagues of the company who don't know copy and paste and so on.
It seemed Kanji problem in comments, but young people can type Kanji exactly, on rather, they don't know how to use computer like double click, where is power button etc.
Also, Japanese IT companies hire new employees don't have CS degrees. They hire people in all of major. It may be a problem with hiring method.
A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards
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This kinda captures one of my concerns. While I could care less about the particulars of how people interact with computers, I do find it concerning that modern devices seem to make general purpose computing less accessible. I love my phone but I haven't even found a decent calculator for it much less a tolerable equivalent of Excel, the shell, or programming environment. Part of me suspects it's an inherent limitati…
Termux for shell on android.
Same as I use. And I love JuiceSSH for ssh.
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I don't know Chinese but it seems like more difficult method because you have to remember how the character is written instead of just typing the spelling and choosing from a list.
You need to know how the character is written regardless because the stroke order is part of the character. There are some basic rules like working left to right and top to bottom. Also, each component has the same order when written out.
Yes, but reading and writing are different skills. For example, there are some characters I can recognise but won't be able to write correctly.
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I understood that as suspend. It still works! Who wouldn't want infinite time for video games/hobbies while time was stopped.
What else would it be? EOF on CP/M? I assume that's not what was intended since it is possible in real life (and the OS will do it sooner or later).
Undo, presumably.
Re: A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards
#365Maybe this is the case in Japan. It is certainly not true in Europe.
People use keyboards all the time and submitting anything beyond basic on a smartphone does not happen here.
I was at our local library recently, during the time students were preparing for exams. Everyone had z phone to check messages. Almost everyone had a laptop. I did not see a single tablet.