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Been instructed in computer useage? (Check All That Apply)

Been instructed in computer useage? (Check All That Apply)

  • Primary/Elementary School

    Votes: 15 48.4%

  • Intermediate/Jr. High School

    Votes: 16 51.6%

  • High School

    Votes: 21 67.7%

  • College Level

    Votes: 15 48.4%

  • Grad School

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Private Instruction

    Votes: 5 16.1%

  • Other (Specify)

    Votes: 12 38.7%
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Been instructed in computer useage? (Check All That Apply)

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I took a class for adults to use Macs long ago.
 
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I had rudimentary training in Grade school and Jr. High, but nothing really useful. I bought a computer when I was in High school and taught myself everything after that.

I learn best on my own anyway, so I was able to fgure out quite a lot of stuff this way.
 
I grew up in the computer age. Our education system is quite good in the country where I received education and I had a variety of PC related instruction and education all the way through the educational system.
But such education isnt really that good, it doesnt make you a computer engineer or anything.
The first thing I used as a child was DOS.. Well, I actually used something before that, but dont remember what it was, green on black type of thing. But Ive used all kind of Windows system and had myself or through friends access to all the latest computer technology from the time of DOS, until like 2002. Then I started using Linux, there just isnt anything that can beat Linux as a system, nor as a teacher when it comes to computer science and software management, just by using Linux over a period of 5 years I have learned more about computers than I did the 15 years between DOS and XP.

I guess you could say that my PC knowledge comes from a good combination of "from the general educational system", "self taught", "private instruction classes", and "work related situations".

My knowledge on Vista is pretty bad. My knowledge of MAC is just mostly theoretical stuff(and lots of it).
 


When I got into high school DOS 3 was new. When I got into college the world was moving from DOS 6 to Windows95.

I recall running a BBS from DOS machine. Thos where the days.
 
Re: Been instructed in computer usage? (Check All That Apply)

What I could pick up on the run and good ole OJT.
I've been to schoold to learn computer programming , but failed .:3oops:
But of the the 1,000 things that would be good to know, I'm at ten or so...:rofl
I'd love to see a well written book on "Internet options", here I know 1 to 2%...
I cannot feel bad about this; a good percentage of posters are illiterate (American children). And more are highly intelligent writers...
 
Vader said:
When I got into high school DOS 3 was new. When I got into college the world was moving from DOS 6 to Windows95.

I recall running a BBS from DOS machine. Thos where the days.
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Guess that makes you about 10 years older than me. :thinking

I remember DOS from the time where I started in the first grade. Nothing else existed, a few years later windows 3 came.
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
Guess that makes you about 10 years older than me. :thinking

I remember DOS from the time where I started in the first grade. Nothing else existed, a few years later windows 3 came.
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Yeah... that sounds about right.
 
Been instructed at computer usage at every level of education I've attended. None of it's been worth a damn or helped me get a job working with computers in any of the fashions I taught myself.
 
I am to old to have had computer instructions in my normal school years and when I was in college from 1958 - 1962
I have owned several computers, and I have taken classes at the local community college and had private instructions from friends.
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
Been instructed at computer usage at every level of education I've attended. None of it's been worth a damn or helped me get a job working with computers in any of the fashions I taught myself.
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Me too. My father used to work as a computer programer so I've always grown up around computers and have learned to use them at an early age. I can rarely remember though how to use DOS, it's been so long since I've used it. I really only used computers when I was younger to play games anyway, that's really all they were good for. I was addicted to Barbie on Commodore 64(I still play it now sometimes)

For a throw back to those people like me who loved apple games- this ones for you: Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive

I was such a nerd I'd come home from school and play Oregon Trail.
 

Ahhr.. Prince or persia, commander keen, alone in the dark and lemmings.. thats the good old times.. I played all of them in DOS.
 
I had my first computer in the late 70s and when I got to high school, they had a brand new computer lab, filled with Apple ][s and a teacher (well, he was actually a math teacher, but close enough, right?) that didn't know what the hell he was doing so I was the most knowledgeable person in the class and I pretty much set up the curriculum until he got up to speed. Ah, the days of the command line, before anyone ever thought up a GUI.
 

I use command line today. In Linux, its way more powerful in combination with GUI, than GUI alone like in Windows(which have a weak command system also)
 
There were computer labs at every level of education for me, and I'm currently in college for Computer Engineering/Computer Science. Only occasionally were we really 'instructed in computer usage,' but the availability and exposure were always there.

I wish that more public schools integrated computers the way that my college does. Even the most technologically backward class posts grades and assignments online, going all the way up to classes that post videos of the lectures synced to a slideshow of the lecture slides. The paper reduction alone makes it worth it, and having a highly connected campus just makes things more streamlined

Cephus said:
Ah, the days of the command line, before anyone ever thought up a GUI.
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I'm with Zeebra on this one and that is one (of many) reasons that I use OS X today. CLI is a much more powerful, precise way of interacting with a computer, it just isn't as intuitive. I guess DOS would be an exception to that it that's what you're talking about, though. DOS is a CLI in the same way that a Vespa is a motorcycle.
 
Had my first computer class as a freshman in high school in the late '70s. First time I ever hacked into a system, too. My teacher gave me an A because he couldn't understand what I did, but he knew it worked.

Took one computer class in college. Hacked into my college system, too.

From there, I didn't touch a computer for about 10 years...until the late '90s. When I had stopped, I was using DOS 6. When I returned, Windows 98 was being used. It was like going to sleep in the 17th Century and waking up in the 21st. I've caught up a lot in 10 years, and though I am not as good at software as I'd like, I build computers as a hobby.

I would say I am pretty exclusively self-taught. I tinker a lot.
 
I've had some level of computer class from elementary school all he way through high-school, but for the most part it meant siting and learning stuff we already new. "The Font changes the style of type. The B makes it bold....."

Looking back, I really wished I had been taught good penmanship instead.
 
Never had any instruction.
Never used a computer before a few years ago.
I just figured it out myself.
We had a computer for a long time before I ever went near it (now we have three).
I never wanted to use it. I had a deep aversion to it, actually.
I was initially tempted into using it as a word processor only, for my writing.
Not going online at all, just using Wordpad, using the printer to print up what I wrote, or saving it on disk.
Then I gradually became seduced by the strange world of the interwebz.
It seemed ideally suited to where I was at in my life at the time.
 

:lol:

DOS is so the nastiest shell ever..
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
I build computers as a hobby.
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Thats some major fun.. I remember the days I had several casings laying around and a dusin of each component for the computer. Couldnt bring all that stuff around in different countries though, so I had to quit that particular hobby
 

I remember Oregon Trail...never took a computer class in high school, and computer training in elementary school was incidental for an unrelated class. I took classes on MS Office in collage, and have gotten a taste of programming while dealing with World of Warcraft macros and add-ons.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
I build computers as a hobby.
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I don't know how much of a hobby it is, but I've built the desktop computers of just about everyone I know, the only exception being my mom's new Dell. Otherwise, I've had my hands on everyone's systems because it's faster, easier and cheaper to put exactly what you want into a system than to have someone else's generic solutions thrust upon you.
 
Just rudimentary computer education in school. I'm basically self-taught. My first personal computer (monochrome monitor lol) had a MSDOS/OS and I had to manually type in all the command lines. :shock:

I am currently fluent in seven programming/script/web languages and can also program ircx/n based bots.
 
Started on Macs in Elementary School and worked on PCs (usually super old ones) through Junior High and High School. Received the customary Intro. to Computers class and a few electives in college.

Additionally, I chose "other," since I spent a healthy amount of time in my late teens "playing on the internet" and sort of self-taught myself a lot about computers as a consequence of just being on one all the time.
 
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