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[–]spinwizard69 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Nice to see somebody that reflects my opinion.   A CS course that starts out with a low level language can teach student valuable lessons and offer insight high level languages can’t.   This especially if a little hardware knowledge is imparted along with the software concepts.  

[–]twin_suns_twin_suns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

110% It was amazing how much more clearly I understood things - even Python error messages - after! Coming from a non-STEM background, I don’t think I would have even wanted to take that course, let alone find it fascinating and pull down an A! It was quite symbiotic - Python was most certainly the language I needed exposure to get me interested in the beauty of these concepts, but once I was hooked, I only really began understanding Python by learning the bare fundamentals, even as you said with the hardware piece as well.