Wednesday 30 April 2014

File Types and Extensions

I've been teaching my students about different file types and extensions in class which has proven to be more time consuming that I thought it would be. It is astonishing how few students have ever noticed that different file types have different extensions. I blame this on the fact that so often extensions are hidden from file names. I think this is a bad idea. I found this handy list covering common file types: http://www.fileinfo.com/filetypes/common