That's fair if you're only doing a one semester for non-majors thing. I just saw "our undergraduates" and the debate about learning C and took it to mean start

That's fair if you're only doing a one semester for non-majors thing. I just saw "our undergraduates" and the debate about learning C and took it to mean starting a CS education with C. Those things I mentioned are how you solve problems though. What I was getting at is learning the low level details of how a computer, or at least C, works isn't problem solving.