Some of this seems a little scripted, and you get the sense at times that the kids are over-acting a little. But it's still pretty funny:
I wonder what they would say if you asked them about Lotus?
The funniest part if you ask me is when the guy tells the kid the computer has no hard drive, to which the kid responds, "Then why is it so big?" (By the way, I know there are a lot of these and I have no idea if this is one of the newest, but slow news day, made me laugh, thought it would make you laugh too . . . if you need to moan about stuff like this then go take a nap.)
Serious question: If anyone is taking computer science classes these days, what are they teaching? I only ever had that class one time, in my senior year in high school, which was in 1984. They taught us the BASIC programming language and I think we might have touched on FORTRAN a little. Needless to say, I don't remember a bit of it, and why would you need to? But back then, you didn't work on a computer if you were a lay person. There was almost no practical use for it, save for maybe a little word processing. The idea of reading the news on it was already in the works, but it was so expensive and impractical that almost no one was doing it.
If you were going to use a computer, you had to be doing computer geek stuff.
What do they teach you now? Surely it's not how to use the Internet and e-mail - stuff everyone can figure out for themselves. (Can't they? I know we elected Obama twice, but please tell me haven't fallen that far.) Is computer science still the domain of high-level programming types? Or has it been dumbed down to a "Computing for Dummies" type curriculum?
And if it has, could some of the kids in this video teach it?
