ghodawalaamanShould I teach students who doesn't know computer science C or JavaScript first?
CryxtalixNo way it’s C. The average student will go home and find that they can’t do much of anything they like, with the level of C they know. Even printing a string is famously hard in C, they’ll hate it.
The average students wants to build games, websites, discord bots etc. Javascript makes it easy, none are easy in C.
printf(“hello world!”);
If this is famously difficult to you, I don’t think computer science is your bag.
Yeah it’s not for the students! OP even specifically said they aren’t CS students.
Now start doing concatenation, splitting, replacements, char/string/integer conversions etc. Students will start banging their heads against a wall, a wall that can only be overcome by studying the intricacies of pointers and memory addresses.
I have no reason to believe this is remotely interesting to non-CS students.
FlamekebabI’m glad someone is saying it. I’m a software engineer and someone elsewhere in this thread is giving me shit for not having much use for the low level stuff.
I was teaching a junior about character encoding a couple of months ago (I suspect his CS degree came free in a box of cereal) but most of what we do is build tooling on top of other tooling. I’m not working on bare metal here!