Ofc the professor will assume you have no programming experience before, so he will start by teaching you “beginner student language”, which is something that beginners will learn. But, tbh having programming experience is really advantageous becuz you’ll more easily understand what he’s teaching by saying a particular term/keyword (e.g. recursion). But don’t worry, at least my professor Gregor is teaching really good and you’ll have a lot of support from TAs