Does it work though? Suppose I want to minimize the time taken from someone having not done any programming, to implementing a B+ tree. Is this really what you

Does it work though? Suppose I want to minimize the time taken from someone having not done any programming, to implementing a B+ tree. Is this really what you would recommend? Also, sometimes code takes a long enough time to run that one can't instantly show the results upon changing some code. That's not something you can dismiss with "that's just asking the wrong question". There are actually things that need computing, and some of them can't be done quickly. I wonder if a good measure of a programming curriculum might be, how quickly can a student become able to make something self-hosting (though, the curriculum should have various natural stopping points before this point, depending on what skills they personally need).