> half the class would fade away.
They didn't care, but every one understands it. Then there is also the basic belief that everything to do with a computer is hard, so they've already decided they can't understand it.
Tax returns > home > By year > (this number is federal, this other number is state)
Tax returns > business > By year > (this number is federal, this other number is state)
We use standard filing and organization like the a basic file system all the time, people have decided that it's hard on a computer.
Compare it to some trees they know from real life. Company organizational chart. School organizational chart (principal has teachers who have children). Country organizational chart (president over ministers over ...).
Trees are not a trivial abstraction, but they aren't also hard.
Re:Windows 10 “Developer Mode”
by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:09AM
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Well I don't do it any more but at the time I tried lots of different approaches, some people just don't seem to have the mental capability to handle the abstractions.
That's amusing actually. Average HN reader just cannot imagine an average people cannot handle abstractions at all.
If an average human couldn't handle abstractions at all, their brain would explode somewhere around being 2 years old. Everyone, even the biggest luddite, deals with shit ton of abstractions every day. The brain can handle it. The ego, quite often, cannot - and herein lies the role of a good teacher.
Actually a lot of people seem to struggle with it, I used to run training courses on a product that had a tree based configuration. As soon as you got beyond a basic list and started building a hierarchy half the class would fade away.