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On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 11:30:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 16:19:39 UTC, Brad Anderson 
> wrote:
>> I don't think it's difficult for them, I think they often just 
>> don't know they can. Environment variables just aren't as well 
>> known on Windows these days. If you are an 18 year old getting 
>> into programming you likely have never even heard of 
>> environment variables or batch files and may not even know how 
>> to use the command prompt (or open it for that matter). 
>> Windows Vista came out when they were 10 years old and the 
>> days of having to know and use the command prompt for typical 
>> users were long gone by this point. I'm thirty so I knew and 
>> used MS-DOS as a kid (I had to) but if you've never used these 
>> things how would you know you could?
>
> There are OS courses at institutes, where you have linux, gcc 
> and learn, how pipes, shared memory and synchronization 
> mechanisms work.

These are just broad overview courses that barely scratch the 
surface. A 4 month course can barely teach you anything about 
such a broad topic.