"Noah Hall" <enali...@gmail.com> wrote
Well, if you decide that in this day and age that asking whether
someone knows how to use a browser to download files,
or if someone knows how to install a program,
This is not out of place. I have experienced it myself with
users of my web tutorial.
I have had several - not a lot, maybe a dozen out of the
half million visitors - but a few, who could not follow the
instructions to download python and install it. I have had
to walk them through the process step by step by email.
In at least one case it was the first time they had ever
installed anything from tyhe web, they had always used
install CDs up till then.
in disbelief that you could find someone these days
interested enough in computers to learn Python, and
yet not know how to download a file.
Nope, it happens, I can promise you. The last such case
I had was late last year. I have also had users who didn't
know how to use the File->SaveAs menu in Notepad
to change a filename from foo.txt (the default) to foo.py...
As my old boss used to say:
"Its impossible to underestimate your users abilities"
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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