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  • The issue with CSE142 was it was stupid. Yay! Writing Hello World in C! I had a specific disinterest in wheel reinvention, and holy shit did the CS department want that.

    For the sake of any CS students who stumble into your thread:

    Learning “Hello World” isn’t reinventing the wheel. Learning “Hello World” is more like practicing the ABCs and reading Dick & Jane. You are learning an entirely new language, and all the strange new rules that come with it.

    Pretty much any and all 100-level science classes are going to feel like reinventing the wheel because it’s just building blocks for the hard stuff.