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It makes a lot of sense for non-CS students to be able to learn CS using Python. For CS students, there's a good argument for starting with the fundamentals an
by andrewmutz 9y ago
It makes a lot of sense for non-CS students to be able to learn CS using Python.
For CS students, there's a good argument for starting with the fundamentals and adding abstractions later. It's not the only way to learn it, but if the CS department wants to start there for CS students, that's reasonable.
- vvanders 9y ago+1, back when I was considering attending the UC system the fact that Java was taught almost exclusively pretty much removed them from my list. We had UCSD students coming to my local community college to take the C course I was in since it wasn't being taught at UDSD. It always shocked me considering they had a pretty awesome super-computer lab. Ironically I spend about 90% of my time in Java code. That said understanding the fundamentals is super-valuable when root-causing JNI issues or trying to speed up the VM in cases where normal Java approaches don't cut it.