↳ In-reply-to » Got a friend asking me for help with their final C programming exams which they failed 8 times (yes, 8 🤷).

@justamoment@twtxt.net yeah, the compromise between the essentials, or the foundation to build knowledge on top of it, is tricky.

And I also agree on teaching to do something realistic.
Currently I’m designing a course from scratch for C# and I’m constantly saying “don’t validate this yet”, don’t preoptimize this now… We’ve known for years all that real software needs, but at the same time we have to ‘lower’ the implementation to the current level.