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When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File

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Programming Algorithms

1 year ago 284,920 views 0 shares

When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File

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That moment when you realize you've been in this industry so long that basic concepts have become ancient artifacts. The look of existential dread when a freshman asks what a zip file is... like watching someone question why we still use wheels on cars. Nothing makes you feel more like a digital dinosaur than explaining compression algorithms to kids who grew up with unlimited cloud storage. And here I am, remembering when we passed code around on actual floppy disks.

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