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Did you read your own quote? These aren't developers, they're "non-computer science students" who don't need to know underlying memory details, but they're bein
by jakear 9y ago
Did you read your own quote? These aren't developers, they're "non-computer science students" who don't need to know underlying memory details, but they're being required to because this class is a prerequisite for a bunch of computing-related classes in other majors.
- walshemj 9y agoAnd how does a CS student vs an EE student know how computers "work". CS as I understand it is just the math not the underlying technology.
- PirateDave 9y agoFor some schools, including all schools in the UC system, CS majors have to take EE classes as part of their requirements. I remember having to setup and program gates and the sort on FPGA boards.
- zelos 9y agoYes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-) That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly early on I think. It's much easier to go from worrying about pointers vs values, manual memory management etc to not having to think about them than it is the other way round.