▲ 50 ▼ Should I teach students who doesn't know computer science C or JavaScript first? (programming.dev) submitted 4 months ago by ghodawalaaman@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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?
[+] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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! permalink fedilink source parent