Hello,

I am thinking about teaching my students JavaScript first so that they can start creating websites and make their career, what are your thoughts?

  • Cryxtalix@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Yeah it’s not for the students! OP even specifically said they aren’t CS students.

    Now start doing concatenation, splitting, replacements, char/string/integer conversions, something as simple as returning a string from a function etc. Students will start banging their heads against a wall, a wall that can only be overcome by studying the intricacies of memory management, pointers and char encodings. They will not be producing results for a very long time.

    I have no reason to believe this is remotely interesting to non-CS students. Even for CS students, most opt to work in higher abstraction levels given the option.

    • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I’m glad someone is saying it. I’m a software engineer and someone elsewhere in this thread is giving me shit for not having much use for the low level stuff.

      I was teaching a junior about character encoding a couple of months ago (I suspect his CS degree came free in a box of cereal) but most of what we do is build tooling on top of other tooling. I’m not working on bare metal here!