Yes, and he would succeed in style. I'm reminded of Sipser's intro to theory of computation: lots of images paint a very clear picture. Much clearer than when y

Yes, and he would succeed in style. I'm reminded of Sipser's intro to theory of computation: lots of images paint a very clear picture. Much clearer than when you would find yourself forced to draw all those images yourself (which you simply wouldn't do and you would instead settle for thinking you understood it). This is much simpler, but there are enough folks for which it is equally hard as intro to ToC was the first time for CS geeks.