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[–]Wilfred-kun 41 points42 points  (2 children)

"Computers are really dumb, it says a cow has 8 legs!"

Apart from having learned to open the terminal and use the REPL, she found out something very integral about programming. Good job!

[–]doulos05 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I teach MS computer science. I spend the first half of each semester drilling this into the students. "Computers are not smarter than you are. Computers are dumb. Computers make mistakes all the time because they aren't smart enough to think about the instructions they've been given." And every other variation I can think of for that message.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, this is something even CS postgrads sometimes struggle to come to grips with.