Terence Eden was saying the same thing that this post said, which is why I was confused at the contradictory tone in this article. It's vital to a good computer

Terence Eden was saying the same thing that this post said, which is why I was confused at the contradictory tone in this article. It's vital to a good computer science education to understand pointers at a hardware level, differences between stack and heap variables, etc. It's a tragedy that the students at Lewis and Clark looked at pointers to functions and thought voodoo, but it would also be wrong to only teach them the low level stuff, since there most certainly is enough to fill a college experience with. That being said, the only thing that seems missing at Lewis and Clark was a good introductory course. A good background on what languages are doing behind the scenes, as provided by something like C, is a part of computer science and is necessary for a thorough understanding of the subject. It just seems like all the issues talked about were computer science issues.