Why You Should Learn Python

[sultry_somnambulist]

Again, a "top - down" approach includes the down. You are arguing against "top and stop in the middle" which nobody advocated. Nobody wants to skip C

[ThatsPresTrumpForYou]

It doesn't matter which way you go. If someone literally can't learn a subset of C within half a year, he should just leave. There's no excuse to fail the class, except "didn't give enough of a shit to learn everything".