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Should I teach students who doesn't know computer science C or JavaScript first? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by ghodawalaaman@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Hello,

I am thinking about teaching my students JavaScript first so that they can start creating websites and make their career, what are your thoughts?

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm glad someone is saying it. I'm a software engineer and someone elsewhere in this thread is giving me shit for not having much use for the low level stuff.

I was teaching a junior about character encoding a couple of months ago (I suspect his CS degree came free in a box of cereal) but most of what we do is build tooling on top of other tooling. I'm not working on bare metal here!