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Current students generally have horrendous computer literacy. There was only about a 20ish year window where using a computer meant you were forced to become vaguely proficient in how it worked. Toward the end of the 90s into the 2000s plug and play began to work more reliably, then 10 years after that smartphone popularity took off and it's been apps ever since.
Students in high school this year were born from ~2007-2011. Most of them probably had a smartphone before a computer, if they even had the latter at all.
First people didn't really understand computers, so we taught about them to children - back in late 90's when I was in school, we had a few school years of dedicated computer classes every week.
People then started to assume kids just "know" computers ("digital native" and all that) and we stopped teaching them because hey, they know it already.
And now we are suddenly surprised that kids don't know how to use computers.
Even university students studying computer science don't have this basic knowledge anymore.
It's a sample of 1, but we hired a young guy with a CS Master's degree. I told him in polite ways that he should not use ChatGPT and his code sucked. When he was told to fix something, he rewrote it completely with a new prompt instead of understanding bugs. He didn't last more than 2 months.