[bachmeier]

> and does a good job of accomplishing its goal of introducing people to the field

That's exactly the point. The goal is not to help students to learn the material at a deep level. It's to recruit students to CS. I'm not even sure what the disagreement is at this point, so I'm going to step away.

[kyawzazaw]

but you were pointing out its flaws in achieving a different objective ("learning deeply")