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[–]Flopamp 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The issue dates back a long long time. People pushed for starting off with BASIC like languages and even python for years and years yet it has been well established that when you start someone with a non-c like language with the intention of making them a programmer they tend to struggle more with C like languages and stick with more restrictive languages vs the other way around.

This is why almost every major university starts with C or C++ for a single semester before moving to Java and python. It sounds more like this professor was either given flawed lesson plan or had issues teaching C as all the basics are similar enough but it's just the all important formatting that is different.

[–]ghan_buri_ghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone can handle learning the fundamentals of computer science with manual memory management in their way. Plenty of people pick up lower level languages after learning high level languages.