I agree with you. Apart from writing efficient code, one has to also consider how the code will be maintained. Abstractions, code-reuse and patterns are the things that programmer's absolutely need to be equipped with.
Gaining a good understanding of the internals of the computer may not be the most useful thing for a new computer scientist. Teaching data structures and algorithms (sorting, binary trees etc) in assembly would be impossible. Assembly would still be useful perhaps but would not always make a computer scientist better. There's so many things like databases and AI where the conventional perhaps introductory material would be more suitable. For myself however I have to say that I would be interested into gaining a deeper understanding of the actual machine throguh assembly.
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I agree with you. Apart from writing efficient code, one has to also consider how the code will be maintained. Abstractions, code-reuse and patterns are the things that programmer's absolutely need to be equipped with.
Gaining a good understanding of the internals of the computer may not be the most useful thing for a new computer scientist. Teaching data structures and algorithms (sorting, binary trees etc) in assembly would be impossible. Assembly would still be useful perhaps but would not always make a computer scientist better. There's so many things like databases and AI where the conventional perhaps introductory material would be more suitable. For myself however I have to say that I would be interested into gaining a deeper understanding of the actual machine throguh assembly.