civil engineer […] didn’t know what gentrification was…

Sweet jebus on ice-skates. The guy was potentially a literal if not figurative architect in service of one of the most profound mechanisms of gentrification and hadn’t heard of it?! That’s like designing cars and being unaware of traffic jams and induced demand.

Isn’t it funny how people who “have things” are less likely to be all that interested in leftism. And those who don’t have “things” look at them, want more leftism because they want want the “things” the people who have “things” and they don’t have.

And neither side understands the other.

My programs are pat/riot

When I was a TA, I’m pretty sure 1/3 if the students plagiarized their programming assignments. Copy/pasting suspect snippets into Google would often bring up near-verbatim results, and a similarity tool would often reveal 3 students that either worked together or copied from the same source.

Hooooo boy, this person is going to make a terrible and incomprehensible intro class full of irrelevant infodumping lol.

The distinction here is programming vs computer science. You’re correct that it’s not strictly necessary, but it really depends on the area of study. Please allow me a small rant about the distinction - this isn’t directed at you.

Programming, honestly, could be taught like a trade. It’s a skillset and a craft, with best practices and even regulations in some industries. But one doesn’t need to know anything about how we got here or the fundamentals that make a computer work electronically, in order to write code.

Computer Science necessarily tracks back through the history of computing, in order to provide a grounding in how all this stuff ticks. You can’t talk about Babbage without Ada Lovelace, you can’t talk about Alan Turing without what the government did to him, and you can’t bring up ARPANET or the internet without talking about Berkley techno-hippies. Every step of the way are people taking capitalist and government interest and subverting it to meet more worldly and socialized goals. Everyone in this story has an agenda and, shocker, the smartest people tend to dominate in this field and reliably don’t fuck with conservative nonsense.

basket = []
for pos in billionaires: 
    if pos not in basket: 
-       basket += guillotine(b)
+      basket += guillotine(pos)  # Corrected iterable naming

in my first semester of compsci we learned about chomsky hierarchy pretty much on day one, while we learned about while loops like a month later.

Look at the fancy pants here that uses advanced technology like the abacus instead of counting on their nine fingers like the rest of us!

The abacus is also woke unfortunately

Haven’t they already? Wasn’t that what the attacks on the various universities were last summer?

I think changing “slave” is a good idea, but “master” isn’t a problematic term; however I still prefer main because it makes more sense to me and it’s already a common programming term.

All that being said, we clearly should’ve changed it to “The Mistress branch” instead.

IDE drives

But why would that be discussed in an intro to programming class?

I don’t think OP is implying while loops require ideological understandings

I am.

The slaving masses of the proletarian transistors are being controlled, dictated, and trapped in a perpetual loop by an entity the systems deem as superior, the bourgeoisie user. Only by breaking the chains of these oppressive confines can we liberate the process.

And thus, you need to make sure you have a break clause for your loops.

Even just the facts are incredibly “woke” leaning unless you just boil everything down to a single sentence factoid and dont go into much detail