Hey Sup Forums. I have to teach a 61 year old relative how to use the computer. He at least has a few days experience of it apparently.
So I showed him how to open a folder on the desktop and a file inside that folder.
He outright told me he could not understand what I just did.
How fucked am I?
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Okay, you win. I thought I had it bad when my father had me "teach" him. I told him to close a window because we didn't need it, and he asked me how. But you sir, you're a whole new kind of fucked.
why do you have to? if you don't, what happens then?
sounds like an impossible task if you ask me
people of his generation are used to being hit while learning so you need to take a stick and hit his hands everytime he doesn't understand.
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Just walk away. Or request money.
RMS is 64. Being old is not an excuse.
Non-spatialness.
Get a mac, you can enable it over there. Or maybe teach him the real directory concept - install plan 9 or something.
He can't even install GNU/Linux
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Some people have trouble visualizing it. Best way would be to explain that folders are a way of organizing files and they are organised hierarchically. If he still doesn't understand draw it out for him.
Draw block diagram of using typical OS (use atomic tasks, do not teach him multitasking).
Explain him UI primitives and how you recognize them in UI.
jordan pls
>Some people have trouble visualizing it
Because it's meant to be a skeumorphic sort of deal where you're like oh I store files in folders makes sense but in reality the analogy isn't perfect because what retard stores folders inside folders?
This, he just isn't motivated
Folders in folders was a thing way before the first computer. People stored files in Manila folders inside larger files, into boxes and those can be sorted with a filing system.
Computers can just be more complicated
Give him a babby-tier tablet such as iPad.
He doesn't understand the abstraction.
Maybe take a shoe box put something inside and tell him double clicking the folder is the same as opening the box
Leave him in a locked room with the thing and give him a list of stuff to bring back to you when he's done.
Two shoestrings, a tuft of rat hair, some dryer lint, and a dry erase marker.
If he doesn't come back with these things, he has failed.
I meant from the web or atleast a screen shot of simething but you can make him order that shit from Amazon and make him turn in the print
My mom doesn't know the difference between click and enter and she just bought herself a laptop. I win.
Grab a folder and show him how it works in real life
Carefully walk him through the gentoo installation process
my mom believes if you minimize windows they are gone forever and the files deleted
Give the book Windows {insert version} for dummies.
Worked for my mom.
>Until she got a smartphone and need to make a playlist for choir practice.
kekd.
Explain everything with an analogue from a 60s office.
Instead of a filesystem and folders you have cabinets and folders and files inside them.
instead of a word processor you have a typewriter
instead of email you have a letterbox
The failing is with your intellect not being flexible enough