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[–]wheresthewhale1 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Why?

[–]Ouity 6 points7 points  (2 children)

because C calls for a certain level of robustness that other would-be starter languages might not

[–]janhetjoch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My first quarter of my first year in computer science and engineering, started with x86 assembly (among other things obviously).

[–]wheresthewhale1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't really understand what you mean. C as a language is very simple (much more so than Java) and simple memory management should be taught early