For 4 years study you dont need to learn C as your first language. You also get the benefit of being able to focus on the low level stuff when you finally go ov

For 4 years study you dont need to learn C as your first language. You also get the benefit of being able to focus on the low level stuff when you finally go over C, instead of having the language do double duty of teaching both low and high level stuff at the same time.