Where have the universities gone?

Where have the universities gone?

Posted Jul 25, 2007 14:15 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: Where have the universities gone? by bfields
Parent article: Where have the universities gone?

Indeed, I strongly suspect that teaching C to people who are not already proficient in saner languages makes them worse programmers. They understand algorithmic abstraction worse, they are more fearful and less self-confident, and they think that programming is an awful chore and not much fun.

Using C (or even worse, C++) as a teaching language is a terrible idea for both pedagogy and for practical skills.

On the other hand, someone who is already proficient in other languages would be made a better programmer by learning C.

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