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Did you read your own quote? These aren't developers, they're "non-computer science students" who don't need to know underlying memory details, but they're being required to because this class is a prerequisite for a bunch of computing-related classes in other majors.

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Yes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-)

That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly early on I think. It's much easier to go from worrying about pointers vs values, manual memory management etc to not having to think about them than it is the other way round.

And how does a CS student vs an EE student know how computers "work". CS as I understand it is just the math not the underlying technology.

For some schools, including all schools in the UC system, CS majors have to take EE classes as part of their requirements. I remember having to setup and program gates and the sort on FPGA boards.

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