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Pretty much the same situation for me. I was already writing C++ professionally and had embarrassingly high thoughts of myself. The first language we started w

Pretty much the same situation for me. I was already writing C++ professionally and had embarrassingly high thoughts of myself. The first language we started with was SML and for a good couple of months I just laughed at this stupid language with its silly and unnecessary limitations. It wasn't until we had to implement a parser in it, something I coincidentally had struggled with on my own, that I started to realize that I was dealing with a different paradigm, and a very powerful one at that. I was less cocky after that.

sporkland 4y ago
Similar not same situation, but different outcome. Had done hobby programming in high school, read a bunch of books, took a junior college course on C. Got to undergrad. Followed the speed limit, took intro to programming course. 450 person class, 1000 person wait-list. 75% of the class did not pass. Only attended two lectures, hand written programming finals. Never lost a point. It wasn't until the 3rd year programming languages class that we wrote minimal lisp interpreters in scheme and did crazy stuff in prolog that I had that rewiring sensation. Not trying to brag, just putting this here for others reading to say that not every intro to programming course speed limit is worth it.