On 05/11/2015 08:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2015 05:01 am, beliav...@aol.com wrote: > >> Yale has taken the unusual step of outsourcing its introductory CS class >> to Harvard, which uses C as the main language in its CS50 class. > > And another generation of new programmers will be irreversibly damaged by > exposure to C...
How so? Surely starting at first principles of a computer's operation can't be all that bad. In my program at uni, one of the very first level courses was actually to build a simulated CPU from logic gates and then program it in assembly. C is just a step up from there. I should note they also had Java in the first year, and that certainly caused irreversible damage. The wonderfulness of LISP and Python can be appreciated just fine with a solid background in how Von Neumann architecture actually functions. In fact I appreciate the layers of abstraction even more after I understand them. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
