The process you’re describing is demystifying computers, not computing. It’s the path of: “Here are basic building blocks, here’s the machine from them, here’s

The process you’re describing is demystifying computers, not computing. It’s the path of: “Here are basic building blocks, here’s the machine from them, here’s simple things you can do with it, here’s a bare metal language for it, here’s a more advanced language. OK, you’re ready for a course about doing something non-trivial.” It’s a totally valid approach, but the approach of computing first goes: “Here’s data, here’s operations on data, here’s more advanced composition of those operations, here are some languages created out of those operations, we can finally do compelling stuff. OK, you’re ready for a course about the details of how machines enabled this process.”