Counter point. My CS program had a class specifically for low level programming that required massive amounts of debugging C code using GDB. That same program a

Counter point. My CS program had a class specifically for low level programming that required massive amounts of debugging C code using GDB. That same program also required students to take an OS class in C where the knowledge from the low level programming class came in very handy. For higher level languages I don't think much of an introduction is warranted since it's just using tools provided to you by the IDE and should be left to the students to figure out.