I audited a few MOOC classes. They don't even bother to teach pointers, the stack, or heap. It just confuses the students they claim. Also teach students to st

I audited a few MOOC classes. They don't even bother to teach pointers, the stack, or heap. It just confuses the students they claim. Also teach students to store the value of PI into an Integer. Use DRJava and Java 6 and some bloated JAR library that makes Windows crash. When I studied computer science in 1986, the very first things we learned where how memory and binary worked, plus what a pointer was and why it should be used and how to manage memory so it would not crash and lock up. We learned how to debug as well. Most comp sci graduates that I talk to know almost nothing of how a pointer works, or the stack or heap, and binary might as well be Tagalog to them. I think that over the years as the demand for IT workers increased, they relaxed the standards they used in teaching computer science and programming. Any good MOOC should teach: Pointers The Stack The Heap Binary Hexadecimal How to debug code Assembly Language instructions the code gets converted into and how to debug that