TITLE: "No, We're Laughing <EM>with</EM> You"
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 16, 2006  5:28 PM
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It seemed an innocent enough question to ask my CS 1 class.

"Do you all know how to make a <TT>.zip</TT> file?"

My students laughed at me.  As near as I could tell,
it was unanimous.

For a brief second I felt old.  But it wasn't that long ago
that students in my courses had to be shown how to zip up a
directory, so perhaps their reaction is testimony more to
the inexorable march of technology than to my impending
decrepitude.

At least most of them seemed interested when I offered to
show them how to make a <TT>.jar</TT> file en route to
creating a double-clickable app from their slideshow program.

I may be a dinosaur, but I'm not completely useless to them.

Yet.
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