There is still a segment of the population that has difficulty with computers or “How to Use”: a software program, the computer as a tool, or taming the beast they see on their desk at work.
The first thing I say to comfort my students is that they are not going to break their computer by doing something “silly”. They may get
a garbage (or unexpected) response from the program, but that is simply because computers are machines that need to be told what to do. True,
computers are excellent at doing things, but computers do not have the level of understanding how to read our minds and do what...