On: Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA

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Unfortunately many ostensibly good schools also have notoriously poorly taught introductory math and science courses.

Stanford's introductory CS sequence has a good reputation however. Consider this course (for example) which teaches students bare-metal programming (and real-world interfacing) on a raspberry pi: https://cs107e.github.io/schedule/