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Should I teach students who doesn't know computer science C or JavaScript first? (programming.dev)
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Hello,

I am thinking about teaching my students JavaScript first so that they can start creating websites and make their career, what are your thoughts?

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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

printf(“hello world!”);

If this is famously difficult to you, I don’t think computer science is your bag.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I'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!

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That is not a valid C program.

    print('hello world')

    Is a valid python program.

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