&quot;Hello World&quot; is basically the bare minimum you need to demonstrate that you got the computer to run the program and do something (so it&#x27;s setup and configured correctly, and you understand some of the syntax). It also demonstrates how much of the way programmers actually communicate with each other is through conventions and not more formal standards. AFAIK there isn&#x27;t a programming language with a specific built-in &quot;Hello World&quot; function, but, like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, everyone Just Knows About It.<p>Granted, if the rest of the course was just like it, I agree it would be terrible, but the first lesson itself is actually not that bad.